Voter Suppression

The contest for an obscure political office partly responsible for administering elections has become the race behind the race, with stakes that could determine the Presidency.

The Chief Justice appeared impatient with the maximalist demands that partisans on the right are placing on a Court they seem to feel they own.

In the oral arguments, anyway, it looked like the Four Seasons Total Landscaping of legal cases.

The Political Scene’s Washington roundtable assesses major announcements by the former President and departing House Speaker.

Candidates who attacked the U.S. voting system lost a number of key midterm races. Sue Halpern and Rachel Monroe discuss the system’s vulnerabilities and separate the facts from the conspiracy theories.

Republican-led legislatures and right-wing activists alike are making things more difficult for election officials.

There is a feeling with this Court that the conservative Justices could make a landmark ruling out of almost any case.

The attorney Marc Elias is working on two critical Supreme Court cases challenging voter suppression. He talks with The New Yorker’s Sue Halpern about the battle ahead.

The partisan redistricting tactics of cracking and packing aren’t merely flaws in the system—they are the system.

Activists are combining voter suppression with election conspiracies to capture the state in 2022 and beyond.

On March 29th, the Reverend Dr. William Barber and Janai Nelson, the president and director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will join the New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb to discuss gerrymandering and Republican efforts to disenfranchise voters of color. The conversation will be part of The New Yorker Live Spring Series, exclusively for subscribers.

After a failure of Democratic legislation, a voting-rights expert talks about options for safeguarding elections.

Who is financing the most recent Presidential election audit in Phoenix, and what are they doing nationwide to undermine the electoral process in 2024?

Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs.

“To have someone say you deserve a knife to your throat, that you should be executed, that they are going to eff up your family, shakes you,” a former city clerk said.

The legal scholar Rick Hasen discusses the dangers of election subversion and voter suppression.

What began as thinly veiled attempts to keep Democrats from the polls has become a movement to undermine confidence in our democracy itself.

“While the danger posed by the virus has largely dissipated, voting remains as dangerous as ever,” the Governor said.

Does the company’s belated statement on the Election Integrity Act represent a reckoning with its past or merely convenient posturing?

“The forsythia and Republican voter-suppression bills are in full bloom.”