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Congressional Democrats used a pair of budget hearings to implore Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan to support judicial ethics reform and stand up to President Donald Trump.
Trump’s crusade to take over voting continues to falter in the courts. So he’s pulling out a range of dangerous new strategies to exert control.
In the biggest voting news of the week, the Supreme Court rejected a Republican attempt to restrict mail voting by barring states from accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day.
Behind Republicans’ meltdown over the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling is a desire to remake the Court to overturn precedent.
President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda had already hit some major legal roadblocks over the last year. But this may have been its worst week yet in the courts.
The U.S. Justice Department has lost yet another court battle in the Trump administration’s crusade to gain unfettered access to state voter rolls.
Republican elected officials and the richest man in the world have embraced rank nativism in the wake of a federal district judge’s decision to block the central pillar of the Trump Administration’s scheme to prosecute the vanishingly few examples of noncitizen voting.
The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on mail voting is heating up. And Democracy Docket is covering it more closely than any other news outlet.
As the midterms get closer, President Donald Trump and his allies are kicking their efforts to suppress voting into high gear.
If there was any doubt before, there can be none after this week: The Supreme Court is going to give states free rein to discriminate against minority voters — even in some of the most egregious cases.
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