The Republican Party’s ongoing effort to scuttle electoral democracy got a big boost from Justice Samuel Alito and his colleagues.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is suing the state over its voter suppression law—the administration’s first major response to the Republicans’ nationwide assault on elections.

The events of January 6 have made reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 a vital step to protect our democracy.

The party has sold itself as the only thing standing in the way of the existential death of democracy. But it’s not governing as if it believes its own warnings.

The Arizona senator has offered the most illegible defense of the filibuster yet.

Local election officials around the country are getting death threats. Many are quitting their jobs. The Justice Department needs to do something.

It starts with “F” and ends with “ilibuster.”

Joe Biden is making some necessary defenses of democracy abroad. I can’t help wishing he’d make them more forcefully here at home.

Why is the Democratic senator from West Virginia echoing Republican talking points about American elections?

Donald Trump’s weird obsession with mail-in voting is doing collateral damage to GOP lawmakers’ illiberal designs.

Republicans are “fretting” about the former president’s political return. But they’re mostly worried about him undermining their ongoing anti-democratic efforts.

Newt Gingrich’s team-up with the former president seeks to ignite the spirit of ’94, but only shows how far the GOP has retreated from governance.

The key vote of the Senate might have a way to preserve voting rights from the GOP’s assaults and John Roberts’ legal opinions.

Biden has only months to enact change, and his legacy will be defined by whether he saved voting rights from Republican assault.

Fueled by the desire to suppress the vote and find end runs around the popular will, Republicans across the country are working to deform the state judiciary.

The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. Today, it’s become a favorite weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.

The former vice president reemerges from a brief hiatus in the throes of Stockholm Syndrome.

Conservatives are only getting more bold in their efforts to disenfranchise Democrats.

The justices are hearing a new challenge involving the landmark 1965 law—and the Roberts Court is even more conservative than last time.

After losing both Senate seats to Democrats, the state’s GOP legislators have proposed a spate of new voter suppression laws.