To Fight the Supreme Court, Build the Bench
The progressive ideal would be to ensure that every vacancy — and there are still over 80 of them — is not just filled, but filled with more movement lawyers.
Democracy Reform
The Ballot Measure Wars
To fully understand how the measure process has been manipulated in recent years, we examined how legislators have tried to change the process.
A New Day Comes With a New Liberal Majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
For the first time in 15 years, a liberal majority holds the court which could mean true progress for democracy in and out of the state.
Sheriffs Undermine Democracy Through Nullification
When the gun lobby loses to democratic will, sheriffs take up the mantle by making a disreputable and debunked legalistic argument.
After the U.S. Supreme Court Ended Its Term, Experts and Elected Officials React
Elected officials, experts, activists and litigants react to the diverging decisions from the recent SCOTUS term.
Revisiting Moore v. Harper and the Threats to Democracy
We cannot let the focus on this one case, as important as it was, obscure the fact that threats to our democracy come in many forms.
As the House Slashes Funding for State and Local Election Departments, the Senate Should Do Better
Simply put, election officials cannot boost confidence in our elections without the proper resources.
John Roberts’ Last Word Is Not the Final Say
I believed that Roberts knew better until I read his last words of the term in which he blamed the dissent for the Court’s current predicament.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Supreme Takeover
As the final decisions of the term dropped, it was clear this Court is as extreme as ever.
Breaking Down the Supreme Court’s Opinion Rejecting a Fringe, Undemocratic Theory
Today, the Court ruled that state legislatures aren’t free to draw congressional maps free from constraints. In doing so, the Court turned back a major threat to American democracy that could have upended elections across the country.
