Terrible action by the North Carolina Supreme Court

Blatantly partisan action by Republican majority court

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the newly Republican-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court grants requests from Republican legislators to rehear two cases that the lawmakers lost last term.https://t.co/UeKEKqEZ0J
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) February 4, 2023

BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court approves Republican lawmakers' requests to rehear cases from last term involving a photo ID to vote law and the state's congressional & legislative maps. Both the law & maps were previously struck down for violating the state constitution.
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) February 3, 2023

#NEW: Gov. Roy Cooper has issued a statement on the NC Supreme Court's decision to rehear the voter ID and redistricting cases. pic.twitter.com/lRYEFWfnRZ
— The Redistrict Network (@RedistrictNet) February 6, 2023

Voter ID laws are often justified by claims that they reduce voter fraud, but the overwhelming evidence has long been clear: voter fraud is virtually nonexistent. https://t.co/ZdWk8LoINh
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) February 3, 2023

Republican justices in the North Carolina Supreme Court threw a wrench in the works on Friday. https://t.co/3mZgeMye1Z
— Slate (@Slate) February 7, 2023

Republican attacks on voting in Georgia

New Georgia voter law creates a system of vote purge privateers in which voters can get fellow voters purged from the voting rolls based on their own DIY internet research. Not surprisingly, conservatives have taken the lead organizing to strike what … https://t.co/orQsVYFUOh
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 27, 2022

Georgia voter suppression law #SB202 allows for these mass voter challenges, but GA isn't the only state with a law like this. In almost 30 states, any private citizen can challenge the eligibility of other prospective voters up to & on Election Day. https://t.co/KuDGpQgIRj
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) July 26, 2022

This change to our election law keeps me up at night. We saw the tip of the iceberg in ‘20

Expect a huge ramp up of voter challenges in Oct.

Most will lack merit. The purpose is to intimidate votes, chill voting, and gum up the works at already over-burdened election offices. https://t.co/D6dUXpy1hM
— Saira Draper // GA HD90 Dem Nominee (@SairaForGeorgia) July 26, 2022

Our right to provide food and water to people waiting in line to vote is protected in the First Amendment.

Politicians in Georgia can't take away this right and make it harder for us to vote without a fight. https://t.co/B4hoFm3QYX
— ACLU (@ACLU) July 19, 2022

NEW @NPR/@wabenews/@gpbnews investigation finds Georgia's GOP-led election law drastically reduced drop box access in urban/suburban areas with highest number of Democrats+nonwhite voters – and most of the drop box votes.

w/@gringsam @Jingnan_Huo #gapol https://t.co/wCDL5sY6t7
— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) July 27, 2022

Ninth anniversary of terrible Shelby County v. Holder decision

Nine years ago, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. This was an awful decision, right up there with this week’s trifecta of Miranda/Roe/guns.

Today marks the 9th anniversary of Shelby County v. Holder, a Supreme Court decision that cut the teeth out of the Voting Rights Act. Today, voting rights, elections, and consequently our democracy, are at risk. It’s time to #RestoreTheVRA #RestoreTheVote https://t.co/CxHwqzQ8aD
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) June 25, 2022

Nine years ago today, the Supreme Court dealt a grave blow to American Democracy with its disastrous ruling in Shelby v. Holder.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) June 25, 2022

Nine years after Shelby v. Holder, the legal decision that gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, we continue to see its effects that discriminate against voters, particularly people of color.

We continue to press back against suppressing these voices.#TheMarchContinues pic.twitter.com/5uAJuxncVm
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) June 25, 2022

#OnThisDay June 25, 2013 SCOTUS in Shelby v. Holder invalidates key aspects of the Voting Rights Act, removing protections that shielded voters from racial discrimination since 1965.

What was Shelby v. Holder?

Glad you asked. #GladYouAsked pic.twitter.com/XIKBEx5BLF
— GET THEE VACCINATED OR GET THEE A TOE TAG. (@JamesMWilliam18) June 25, 2022

Supreme Court right-wing hypocrisy on voting rights

The Supreme Court isn’t bothering to hide its designs on our democracy, @paulwaldman1 and @ThePlumLineGS write https://t.co/daANpvzFux
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) March 23, 2022

#ELB: Breaking: Supreme Court, in Bizarre Unsigned Opinion, Strikes Wisconsin Legislative Maps on Voting Rights Grounds, Signalling New Hostility to the Voting Rights Act https://t.co/WYhjjvnZO2
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) March 23, 2022

Needless to say, the Supreme Court's rather selective application of the Purcell principle (no last-minute changes to election rules) in AL vs. WI won't do anything to diminish perceptions it's become a partisan body.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 23, 2022

So much for overturning redistricting plans so close to an election. The full hypocrisy of the conservative majority of the Supreme Court on display. This is a willful exercise of political power by the Court, not judges calling balls and strikes https://t.co/am8mR3bLaI
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) March 23, 2022

Six weeks ago, in early February, SCOTUS stayed a ruling ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional map because it was too close to the election

Now, in late March, it's ordering Wisconsin to redraw its legislative maps https://t.co/pCwGbugAt0
— David Nir (@DavidNir) March 23, 2022

Keep in mind that this doesn't apply to the congressional map the WI Supreme Court adopted (not that that map helps Dems much). https://t.co/zG06wx5yqK
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 23, 2022

This is an absolutely shocking decision. The maps were adopted by a Republican justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This appeal was considered a Hail Mary, and it prevailed. I am stunned by this ruling. https://t.co/i5r4D0eqcj
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 23, 2022

BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Wisconsin Republicans' request to throw out governor's state legislative maps drawn to include an extra majority-black district. Justices Kagan & Sotomayor write a dissent. Apparent vote is 7-2, but we cannot be sure as this is on the shadow docket.
— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) March 23, 2022

Bad news for voting rights

A bad decision by a Trump-appointed judge could do major damage to what’s left of the Voting Rights Act.

Having rolled back the Voting Rights Act’s protections in ways big and small over the last decade, #SCOTUS could be prepared to do even more damage. Here's what you need to know: https://t.co/fcxruCSxG7
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) February 20, 2022

Little is left of Sec. 2 of the Voting Rights Act now that the Supreme Court has gutted it; if this district court ruling is upheld, it’s curtains. https://t.co/8H9lR56ZSh
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) February 18, 2022

This is an excellent piece from @JohnAvlon with Kate Masur and @BrennanCenter's @mawaldman re 15th Amendment and how recent moves from #SCOTUS have reduced the power of the #VotingRightsAct of 1965. #VotingRightsMatter #VotingRights #voters https://t.co/1XNa3fqU7S
— Holly Bryan #GetYourVax 💉 (@hmbryan) February 18, 2022

The Republican judge attack on the voting rights of black people continues UNABATED, while the Democratic Party does literally nothing to stop them. https://t.co/GM8ryvXxJK
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) February 18, 2022

The war against democracy continues unabated. https://t.co/mWs1KCzkNW
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 18, 2022