Voting Rights
Vox’s coverage of gerrymandering, problems at the polls, and the state of voting rights in America.
At least four justices appear to be on board with a frivolous lawsuit attacking voting by mail.
At least four justices appear to be on board with a frivolous lawsuit attacking voting by mail.
The Republican Party wants the Court to toss out thousands of ballots. Its arguments are laughably weak.
A questionable lawsuit seeking to redraw a Republican district risks turbocharging Trump’s gerrymandering campaign.
The Republican justices already upheld Texas’s gerrymander, now we’ll find out if the same rules apply to blue states.
The latest in Voting Rights
The president wants new congressional maps in Indiana. Its GOP state senators aren’t so sure.
Oops.
The Republican Party’s arguments in Watson v. RNC is probably too much even for this Supreme Court.
Federalism: It matters!
The Republican justices hunt for a reason to gut America’s most successful civil rights law.
Maybe we don’t want to centralize power over elections in this particular federal government?
The Court recently saved part of the Voting Rights Act. But now it’s signaling it’ll kill it off soon enough.
Turns out only half of the Republican justices want to kill off the Voting Rights Act.
The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.
The president just set the stage to challenge election results he doesn’t like.
Apparently, we can’t even trust these justices to follow their own very recent precedents.
The Court decided an identical case two years ago. But every voting rights case that reaches this Court is dangerous.
Allison Riggs won the seat by 734 votes, but her opponent is trying to invalidate 60,000.
Several federal courts are fighting over Louisiana’s congressional maps.
This is the latest in a string of favors this Court has done for the Republican Party.
Republicans ask the Supreme Court to disenfranchise thousands of Pennsylvania voters.
From registering to vote to understanding your rights, here’s what to expect this Election Day.
The exhausting dance that precedes every single government funding battle has begun.
The Court’s decision in RNC v. Mi Familia Vota could have been much worse for democracy, even if it’s not all good.
A new Supreme Court case could potentially hand Arizona to Donald Trump.
Multiple federal courts are fighting over Louisiana’s illegal racial gerrymander.
This is what happens after four years under an insurrectionist president. It will get much worse if he gets eight.
They could break the GOP’s longstanding gerrymandered grip on the state legislature.
At the very moment the Supreme Court appears to be moderating on voting rights, GOP judges are going after America’s most important voting rights law.
The Fifth Circuit decided to obey the law, for a change.
The Republican Party had a great day in the Supreme Court today. Voting rights did not.
The justices may have stepped away from their unrelenting hostility toward voting rights plaintiffs.
Once again, the Supreme Court must deal with judicial arsonists on the Fifth Circuit.
Believe it or not, there are worse judges than Brett Kavanaugh. And now Brett needs to clean up their mess.
The Alabama GOP will have to comply with a Supreme Court order striking down its racially gerrymandered map.
Alabama’s racially gerrymandered maps are back before the Supreme Court, this time with a dollop of massive resistance.
There are some terrible things that even this Supreme Court isn’t willing to do.
The lawsuit seeking to transform Wisconsin into a democracy, explained.
The Court ordered Alabama to draw a second congressional district where Black voters can elect their chosen candidate.
The way to beat a partisan Supreme Court is to hold a grudge against it for a really long time.
Six justices decided not to burn the right of the people to govern themselves to the ground.
The surprise ruling will create a new Democratic-friendly district in Alabama — and might open up pathways elsewhere.
The Court’s new voting rights decision is one of the most reassuring opinions it’s handed down in years.
South Carolina’s lawyers propose a rule that could make it virtually impossible to challenge racial gerrymanders.
Moore v. Harper endangers elections in the United States. Now it seems likely to disappear.