Democracy Wire

SCOTUS lets Texas's voter ID go forward in spite of the trial court's finding that it was intentionally discriminatory and an unconstitutional poll tax.

Andrew Kloster, a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and Miles Rapoport, president of Common Cause, debate whether voters should be required to show a form of government-issued identification.

As Hispanic Heritage Month winds down, millions of Hispanic and Latino Americans face obstacles to exercising their voting rights.

The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a federal court ruling which would have allowed same day voter registration and out of precinct provisional voting in North Carolina for the November elections.

Voting rights advocates are celebrating a Texas district court's decision to strike down the state's controversial strict photo ID law. We looked through the ruling, and there's plenty to celebrate.

A federal appeals court late Monday reinstituted Wisconsin’s hotly-disputed Voter ID law, reversing a district court’s order in Frank v. Walker, and complicating plans for a mid-term election that’s now less than four weeks away.