Voting Rights
Vox’s coverage of gerrymandering, problems at the polls, and the state of voting rights in America.
A brief history of “colorblindness,” the idea that gutted the Voting Rights Act.
A brief history of “colorblindness,” the idea that gutted the Voting Rights Act.
Trump threatened to arrest state election officials who distribute mailed ballots. Then, the courts got involved.
Trump’s primetime speech accidentally exposed the limits of his campaign to undermine US elections.
A new poll finds that Barrett is the least popular justice. A Republican revolt against her is the biggest reason why.
The latest in Voting Rights
Watson v. RNC is the easiest election law case to reach the justices in years. It should not have been 5-4.
How the heck did Alabama’s Republican lawmakers screw this one up?
And what they should do instead.
Why did a Court that hates the Voting Rights Act with the intensity of a thousand suns decide to stay its hand?
Democrats will have to balance racial representation with political reality.
Democrats could be one midterm wave away from instituting a national popular vote. Should they?
Trump’s gerrymandering efforts are backfiring.
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 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.