Jan. 6 prosecutors urge Senate to stop confirming Trump’s election-denier nominees
The Senate has confirmed nearly 60 Trump-nominated election deniers to the judiciary. The attorneys who prosecuted the Jan. 6, 2021 rioters want them to stop.
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Kamala Harris tells Urban League the Voting Rights Act won’t be revived ‘any time soon’
To overcome Trump’s attempts to cheat the elections, Kamala Harris told the Urban League that voter turnout has to be so large that it’s “too big to rig.”
Supreme Court open to enforceable ethics reform, justices tell Congress
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.
This week at Democracy Docket: Trump is doing everything he can think of to control voting. But states aren’t backing down
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.
This week at Democracy Docket: A rare pro-voting ruling from the Supreme Court — and a revealing shift among election deniers
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.
Republicans want to remake Supreme Court to end birthright citizenship
Behind Republicans’ meltdown over the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling is a desire to remake the Court to overturn precedent.
This week at Democracy Docket: Judges are rejecting Trump’s anti-voting crusade
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.
Pennsylvania’s voter rolls are safe from DOJ’s grab, rules federal judge, bringing Justice Dept record to 0-10
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.
‘Imported judges’: GOP lawmakers, Musk launch racist attack on judge who blocked Trump’s voter purge scheme
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.
This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s attack on mail voting advances, while Georgia Republicans retreat
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.
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