Voting Rights
Vox’s coverage of gerrymandering, problems at the polls, and the state of voting rights in America.
Moore v. Harper, one of the scariest election cases in the Supreme Court’s modern history, probably won’t end in catastrophe.
Inside the strategy that carried Democratic secretary of state candidates to victory.
Alabama hoped to destroy a key prong of the Voting Rights Act. It’s probably going to walk away with a smaller victory.
Merrill v. Milligan could eliminate one of the few remaining nationwide safeguards against rigged legislative maps.
The Republican justices who overruled Roe v. Wade are only getting started.
What happens if the Court rejects the rule of law?
Democrats don’t have the votes right now for major Supreme Court reform. But if they pick up seats, they could have many options.
Moore v. Harper is a grave threat to US democracy, and the fate of that democracy probably comes down to Amy Coney Barrett.
Ardoin v. Robinson could foreshadow a new age of widespread racial gerrymandering.
The Constitution was written to thwart Black freedom. But we can change the rules.
Grassroots groups helped turn the tide in Georgia before. In 2022, they face an uphill battle.
A silly case about a minor paperwork error could snowball into a serious threat to the right to vote.
DeSantis’s law will sniff out problems that don’t exist.
The pandemic helped improve accessibility, but new election barriers in states like Wisconsin are rolling back gains for thousands of voters with disabilities.
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The justices are concerned that Wisconsin’s legislative maps may give too much political power to Black people.
Republicans face a significant, but temporary, defeat in the Supreme Court.
A pair of cases on the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” could eviscerate legal safeguards protecting free and fair elections.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett appears to be quite unfamiliar with her own judicial record, and that of her colleagues.
Trump Judge Lee Rudofsky’s decision could completely neutralize the Voting Rights Act when the GOP controls the White House.
The Court’s median justice just made it much harder to stop attacks on the right to vote.
The Court takes up its first big redistricting case since Republicans gained a 6-3 supermajority. What could go wrong?
Breyer’s best work was often the work you never knew about.
Sinema’s political future is murky after her filibuster vote.
The Biden administration makes a persuasive case that Texas violated the Voting Rights Act, but the Supreme Court hates the Voting Rights Act.
What’s in Democrats’ latest voting rights reform bill and why Republicans are expected to block it.
Trump’s first Supreme Court appointee’s radical vision to remake America, explained.
Abortion, guns, regulation — conservatives are poised for a big year.
The voting restrictions are less radical than in earlier bill versions.
Nancy Pelosi is planning a vote on a bill that would undo many of the Court’s attacks on democracy.
Republican lawmakers in Texas have put political ambition above public good amid statewide crises.
Democracy in Georgia could hinge on battles over the state’s new voter suppression law.
Republicans have begun a legal process that could allow them to disenfranchise much of Atlanta.
The Supreme Court isn’t even pretending that it’s bound by legal texts in its voting rights cases.
The Michigan GOP has an aggressive plan to suppress the vote — and to bypass the governor’s veto.
Democrats hope to deny Texas Republicans the quorum they need to pass anti-voting legislation.
The biggest loser was democracy.
Brnovich v. DNC is a bad opinion for voting rights. It’s also much better than could have been expected from a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS.
Blame John Roberts and Donald Trump.
Why HR 1, known as the For the People Act, is intricately linked with Biden’s foreign policy.