Callais ruling may also demolish states’ voting rights laws
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act, another set of laws is also in danger: state-level statutes that seek to bar racially discriminatory voting practices.
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How Democrats are fighting back after Callais
After the Supreme Court’s six Republican-appointed justices gutted the Voting Rights Act, Democrats across the country said they will respond with their own redistricting efforts and, eventually, new pro-voting laws.
Supreme Court ruling derails 28 lawsuits defending minority voting rights, Democracy Docket research finds
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
After Callais, calls to reform Supreme Court grow deafening
Following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act Wednesday, legal scholars and advocates across the country demanded reforms to the Supreme Court to preserve free and fair elections and voting rights in the U.S.
Republicans want to impeach judges they don’t agree with
It’s the latest example of Republican legislators taking aim at judges whose rulings they don’t like.
Harris warns SCOTUS likely to gut VRA, calls SAVE America Act a ‘poll tax’
Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris shares her concerns about the fate of the Voting Rights Act during her talk at the National Action Network convention.
Liberal Chris Taylor clinches Wisconsin Supreme Court seat in a win for voting rights
The battleground state’s highest court will now have a 5-2 liberal supermajority. This could signal a new future for voting rights.
GOP officials: Trump’s anti-voting order will probably be ‘enjoined very quickly’
President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to dial back mail-in voting likely doesn’t stand a chance in court.
This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s doomed anti-voting order, DeSantis spreads election lies — and Harmeet Dhilon for AG?
With his popularity plummeting, President Donald Trump took a major step this week aimed at grabbing control of U.S. elections. But in truth, the anti-voting executive order he issued Tuesday only underscored his weakness.
This week at Democracy Docket: SCOTUS hears a GOP voter suppression bid, on the ground in Fulton County, and a lawless MAGA sheriff
The anti-democracy onslaught continues apace. And we’re keeping you up to date on all of it.