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Nov 25, 2025

Oct 15, 2025 - Missouri state officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at blocking voters’ efforts to invoke their constitutional right to veto the state legislature’s...

Nov 19, 2025 - A federal court Tuesday delivered a devastating blow to Texas Republicans’ attempt at a mid-decade gerrymander. And the court found that a July letter sent...

Feb 10, 2026

Nov 26, 2025 - A federal court ruled Wednesday that North Carolina’s new congressional gerrymander — pushed by President Donald Trump to give Republicans another U.S....

Read about the latest in the fight for fair maps.

Sep 10, 2025 - Democracy Docket took a close look at how the new Texas congressional map is designed to further dilute the strength of minority voters.

Oct 7, 2025 - Just because I am scared does not mean I am helpless. I will not let that fear drive me to hide or stay silent.

Nov 5, 2025 - In my 35 years as an election lawyer, I’ve seen good election nights and bad ones. Nov. 4 was a good one — for both Democrats and democracy.

May 7, 2024 - Over the past few election cycles, there’s been a steady stream of right-wing groups launching a full-frontal legal assault on voting rights. But the Public...

May 21, 2025 - A federal judge said the Trump administration violated a court order preventing it from deporting migrants to countries other than their own without first...

Learn more about voting rights cases in Texas.

Feb 18, 2026 - Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts.

Nov 5, 2025 - With all the chaos coming from the Trump administration, it’s important to remember that it also continues to advance judicial nominees — judges who will...

Sep 13, 2025 - For the past seven months, Trump has demonized those who fight for democracy and weaponized the government against them. 

Nov 4, 2025 - There has been a great deal of concern that Trump will try to direct policy at the EAC to disrupt or undermine elections.

Nov 10, 2025 - We’re now five months into President Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 election by pressuring GOP-led states to draw more Republican congressional seats,...

Nov 18, 2025 - The Indiana State Senate rejected President Donald Trump’s call for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms....

Oct 3, 2025 - A Texas Democrat testified in federal court Thursday that Republican leadership used minority communities as pawns when they redrew the state’s congressional...

Nov 17, 2025 - Since 2020, political forces aligned with President Donald Trump have worked to create distrust in elections and then use that distrust to justify restrictive...

Feb 14, 2024 - On Dec. 29, 2022, President Joe Biden signed S. 4573, a bipartisan bill to reform the antiquated Electoral Count Act (ECA), into law.

Nov 24, 2025 - The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a sweeping new lawsuit in Michigan that seeks to eliminate a state law that protects voting access for U.S....

Feb 6, 2026 - A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no...

Jan 21, 2026

Aug 7, 2023 - When list maintenance is done without proper safeguards, this routine process can lead to the removal of otherwise eligible voters. A number of Republican-led...

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Oct 20, 2025

Dec 1, 2025 - In a sweeping settlement with four Republican-led states, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has agreed to redesign its federal immigration database to...

Feb 12, 2026 - Todd Lyons, the acting chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, admitted to senators Thursday that federal immigration officers would have “no...

Nov 18, 2025 - Florida lawmakers are set to begin a mid-decade redraw of the state’s congressional map next month — a move that could accelerate a nationwide GOP push to...

Oct 30, 2025 - Next week’s elections will be the first real test of enthusiasm for Democrats in the Trump 2.0 era. They also will matter for abortion rights, either by...

Nov 25, 2025 - The FBI requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they...

Learn more about voting rights cases in Michigan.

Nov 19, 2024 - Check out our array of resource pages and learn more about the hot button legal concepts popping up in voting rights and election litigation.

Oct 25, 2025 - On Wednesday, North Carolina Republicans enacted a newly gerrymandered map that targets Black voters to create an additional seat for a white Republican. The...

Jun 24, 2025 - The top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was an attorney for a leading anti-voting group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal...

Democracy Docket tracks lawsuits that will impact the future of voting rights. Learn about redistricting lawsuits shaping the fight for fair maps.

Nov 3, 2025 - I tuned in to watch Norah O’Donnell interview Donald Trump on “60 Minutes.” Over the span of 40 minutes, I sat in disbelief as Trump was asked a series...

Democracy Docket's candidate Q&A series features candidates running in the 2022 cycle and highlights their pro-democracy platforms.

Sep 4, 2025 - The Trump administration is using crime and degradation as an excuse to control important transportation hubs.

Nov 28, 2025 - While the voting laws and rules in red states can pose serious challenges to voters, we cannot fail to look at the entire picture.

Learn more about voting rights cases in Indiana.