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May 22, 2023 - A relative rarity until the Trump administration, in just four years, his Trump Justice Department asked the court for emergency relief an astounding 41 times.

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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.

Below is a docket of UW rules that will be undergoing rule making, and UW rules proposed or adopted within the past 12 months.

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.

Dec 31, 2025

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.

Sep 26, 2025 - Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide...

Nov 10, 2025 - The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration another win on the shadow docket over passports for transgender Americans.

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...

The agency is seeking comment through January on a series of white papers on emerging landfill emissions management practices ahead of its planned rulemaking...

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

Jan 2, 2026 - Greece’s judicial calendar for 2026 features a series of high-profile trials with major social and political implications, led by the long-awaited...

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...

Proposals for allowing the Hoosier Lottery to sell tickets online and the opening of a Fort Wayne-area casino are in the cards for what could be Indianas...

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

The Court is ruling on challenges to government actions on its emergency docket, often without explaining its decisions or providing guidance to lower courts.

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...

Stay informed with breaking news updates about voting rights, democracy reform, litigation and legislation.

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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...

As a legal clerk to a Ninth Circuit Judge, Noah Stern ’16 puts his empathy, reason and curiosity to work every day, helping to craft opinions, summarize...

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...

Lex Machina®, the LexisNexis® Legal Analytics® platform, now includes docket-level data from 1,200+ new state courts—offering unmatched visibility into...

What is Kratom, and why does a Utah lawmaker want to ban it? Utah lawmakers were set to hold their final interim meetings on Wednesday, laying the groundwork f

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...

The last trading sessions of 2025 will be low in volume, says Kevin Hincks. He reports from the Cboe Global Markets and explains what investors should look for...

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...

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Oct 20, 2025 - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide another Second Amendment case, U.S. v. Hemani, in which they'll take up the question of whether a federal law...

A busy Supreme Court term is already underway, with trans rights, redistricting, birthright citizenship, and more on the docket. And this week, Cecillia Wang...

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.

If you’re wondering how the high court’s lawless sausage got made, we must turn to an obscure line from a long-forgotten 1977 case.

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.