Plenty. They improperly expand presidential power and will make it harder to vote.
Voting rights
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On Voting Rights, Trump and Harris Couldn’t Be Farther Apart
Harris would expand early voting and vote-by-mail, discourage partisan gerrymandering, and adopt policies leading to higher turnout. Trump’s obsession with election “integrity” is narrow, used most often to challenge results he does not like.
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The Continuing War on Easier Access to Voting
In statehouses and courthouses, enemies of easier access to voting are working overtime to challenge expanded voter registration.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Supreme Court’s Naked Power Grab
This past term, from Trump immunity to voting rights, the conservative supermajority ignored restraint and gave itself untoward authority.
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The Court v. The Voters
Joshua Douglas’s sterling new book examines the most important Supreme Court cases on voting rights in the last 50 years and suggests ways we can correct this “hard turn toward anti-democracy.”
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Confessions of a Democracy Optimist
There’s cause for optimism despite bad court decisions and conspiracy theories.
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Does Voting By Mail Really Help Candidates Win?
A Virginia special election provides clues—and shows the GOP still struggling.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Roberts Court Isn’t Getting More Moderate
The six conservative justices haven’t been shy about jettisoning decades of precedent and even their supposedly moderate rulings aren’t so moderate.
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Florida’s New Law Takes Aim at Voter Registration
The statute jacks up fines and imposes onerous new requirements on the American tradition of community groups registering voters—a move so at odds with historical precedent that even conservative judges, including the Roberts Court, should strike it down.
Posted inBooks
Emancipation Relocation
In 1848, at a time when Black families were routinely ripped apart and Black bodies were bought and sold in public squares as chattel, a Black man and his mixed-race wife pulled off one of the most daring and ingenious feats of self-emancipation imaginable. Defying conventions of race, class, and gender, William and Ellen Craft […]
