Read in-depth op-eds on voting rights and democracy from our contributors, guest authors and Democracy Docket's founder, Marc Elias. Use the drop-down menu to organize by topic.
In Missouri this week, Republicans tried to undermine the rule of law to do President Donald Trump’s bidding and get one more congressional seat for their party. But that was too far, even for the anti-democratic U.S. Supreme Court.
This is how the Voting Rights Act died: not in a fair fight, but in a case engineered to produce a predetermined result.
The deeper lesson of Callais is not just that we must fight back. It’s that the people who actually live in these states have been fighting all along and all alone.
The shadow docket has grown in scope and importance in a range of areas of the law. But none has been as important or as overlooked as the area of redistricting.
Redistricting is, in nearly every respect, a zero-sum game. When you remove a guardrail, the consequences are immediate and trigger others.
Fair maps are not a technical issue. They are a safeguard for all our rights and a check on entrenched political interests.
Despite the will of the voters, Republicans have turned to the courts to overturn the election and discard the results.
The citizens of Virginia voted for a new map that will net Democrats an additional 4 congressional seats.
The Republican Party is a party of vote suppressors and election deniers. This is no longer a flaw in some members of the GOP; it is the defining feature of the MAGA takeover.
There’s a long-term path to defeating the gerrymander — but only if voters act to put pro-democracy judges on the state’s highest court.
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