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Brendan Hoffman / Getty We Can’t Let Our Elections Be This Vulnerable Again
No law can stop reckless people from trying to thwart the popular will, but we should still address the obvious weak spots in our system.
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Getty / The Atlantic Trump Needs Three Consecutive Hail Mary Passes
The president’s litigation strategy is unlikely to succeed, but it’s doing great harm in the meantime.
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Erin Schaff / Reuters The Supreme Court May No Longer Have the Legitimacy to Resolve a Disputed Election
If the country’s nine justices wind up deciding the presidential race, things could get very ugly very quickly.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Unlimited Donations to Candidates, Coming Soon?
Former Solicitor General Paul Clement may get the Supreme Court closer to killing what’s left of campaign-finance limits.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Supreme Court Could Make Gerrymandering Worse
It likely won’t rule partisan gerrymandering unconstitutional. Instead, it may disallow independent redistricting commissions.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Justice Kennedy's Beauty Pageant
Challengers are parading different standards before the U.S. Supreme Court justice, trying to offer a definition of partisan gerrymandering he’ll find acceptable.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Republicans Are Not Attacking Democracy
Not every battle over voting is an assault on democratic values.
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Reuters The Supreme Court’s Next Big Fight Over Money in Politics
Will the justices gut the rest of McCain-Feingold—and make it easier for wealthy donors to influence elections?
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Hard Power of 'Soft' Voter-ID Laws
States are passing special measures to head off attacks on the constitutionality of strict voter-identification requirements. But such measures are often just as disenfranchising as the laws they shield.
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