Voting Rights and Democracy

“Ruling Away From America’s Second Founding” on the Election Law Blog

David Gans’s Slate article on the Roberts Court was featured on Election Law Blog. Read more.

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CAC Release: Roberts Court Strikes Down Yet Another Campaign Finance Law, Turns Blind Eye to Corruption

WASHINGTON, DC – Following today’s decision at the Supreme Court in National Republican Senatorial Committee...
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CAC Release: Supreme Court Rebukes Fifth Circuit, Affirms State Authority to Permit Post-Election Receipt of Mail Ballots

WASHINGTON, DC – Following today’s decision at the Supreme Court in Watson v. Republican National...
By: David H. Gans, Simon Chin
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Guns, Weed, and the Forgotten Framers

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How Congress Can Pass a New Voting Rights Act Despite the Supreme Court

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Director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights & Citizenship David H. Gans wrote an article in...
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Voting Rights and Democracy
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Roberts Court UNDER FIRE after VOTING RIGHTS ACT Attack

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Voting Rights and Democracy
April 29, 2026

CAC Release: Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority, Once Again, Guts the Voting Rights Act and Further Enables Racial Discrimination in Voting

WASHINGTON, DC – Following today’s decision at the Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais, a...
By: David H. Gans