Elected by the People, Removed by DeSantis
I’m a citizen, a voter, an attorney and a candidate for public office in Florida — and this scares me.
Opinion
Read in-depth op-eds on voting rights and democracy from our contributors, guest authors and Democracy Docket's founder, Marc Elias. Use the drop-down menu to organize by topic.
The “Big One” Missing From Trump’s Indictments
You need to include the weight of a lawsuit brought in the Supreme Court by 17 states directly against four others.
In Defending Their Congressional Maps, Republicans Keep Defying the Law
It’s been a rough year for lawyers tasked with defending Republican redistricting maps in court.
These Indictments Are the Beginning, Not the End
Let’s be clear: election denialism is a threat to all of us, an attempt to ignore our voices at the ballot box and disenfranchise voters.
A Stain Not Easily Removed
Something has gone tragically wrong in the GOP and in the legal profession. At this pace, CPAC will need to hold its next convention in a prison yard.
The Indictments Are Only a Snapshot of Trump’s Conspiracy Against Democracy
Though the indictments only charge Trump with conspiring to illegally overturn the results after Election Day, the reality is that he started much earlier.
Trump, Five Lawyers and Their Conspiracy Against Our Democracy
There is no question that Trump is the ultimate villain of the Jan. 6 insurrection. But he didn’t act alone.
Alabama Shows Our Country Hasn’t Changed
Ten years ago, in his landmark opinion in Shelby County v. Holder, Chief Justice John Roberts promised that “our country has changed.”
The Supreme Court Allows a Relic of White Supremacy To Remain in Mississippi’s Constitution
This vestige of Mississippi’s 1890 retrenchment of the doctrine of white supremacy remains in place over 130 years later.
U.S. Supreme Court Gives Ohio GOP Second Shot at Gerrymandering
It appears that Ohio Republicans will get away with having defied seven prior state Supreme Court decisions entirely unscathed.
