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The articles that garnered the most clicks on Democracy Docket this year reflect the key legal and political developments that shaped public conversation during the most litigated election in history. From major Supreme Court decisions to important state-level voting reforms, these stories highlight the issues that defined democracy in 2024. Top 10 Breaking News Stories […]
What do George Conway and Hillary Rodham Clinton have in common? They each starred in a top-clicked Democracy Docket video this year, gaining about 1.5 million views apiece.
The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s 235th judge to a lifetime appointment on Friday evening, which would surpass the number of judicial vacancies that President-elect Donald Trump filled during his first term.
The majority of voting lawsuits filed during the 2024 election cycle were related to election administration and voter registration, not mail-in voting, which is a departure from 2020 election litigation.
Republican legislators’ attempt to upend election administration in Arizona prevailed after a court blocked part of the state’s 2023 Election Procedures Manual (EPM), which sets rules for how elections are run.
The Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the 2020 election subversion case against President-elect Donald Trump and dozens of others but rejected a request to dismiss the indictment.
North Carolina GOP Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin is asking the state’s highest court to intervene in his ballot challenges.
For at least seven years, Arizona officials knew about the administrative error that led to hundreds of thousands of residents registered to vote without showing proof of citizenship.
A number of Trump nominees and staff picks have had a direct hand in some of the most consequential legal efforts to disenfranchise voters in the past year.
The state of Kansas agreed to permanently stop enforcing a law that undermined the work of voter registration organizations by imposing criminal penalties on individuals whose actions could be construed as conduct that would be undertaken by an election official.
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