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Voting, ballot access, election administration, campaign, and redistricting cases.
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24-568Michael J. Bost, et al., Petitioners v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al.
The Supreme Court held 7-2 that a candidate for office has standing to challenge election rules governing the counting of votes. Chief Justice Roberts...
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24-109Louisiana, Appellant v. Phillip Callais, et al.
The Court decided Louisiana v. Callais on April 29, 2026, affirming and remanding a ruling that struck down Louisiana's SB8 congressional map as an un...
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24-1260Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State, Petitioner v. Republican National Committee, et al.
Do the federal election-day statutes preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election official...
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24-621National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al., Petitioners v. Federal Election Commission, et al.
Challengers seek to overturn limits on coordinated campaign spending by political parties, arguing the restrictions violate First Amendment protection...
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96-670Foster v. Love
Louisiana's election system allowed congressional candidates to be elected in an October open primary if they received a majority of the vote. The Sup...
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21-12Federal Election Comm'n v. Ted Cruz
This case is about a federal campaign-finance law that capped at $250,000 the amount of post-election donations a campaign could use to repay money a ...
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20-542Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Degraffenreid
This case challenges a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that let mailed ballots received up to three days after Election Day be counted and told offi...
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14-232Harris v. Ariz. Indep. Redistricting Comm'n
Voters sued the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, arguing that newly drawn voting districts violated the one person, one vote principle by...
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02-1674McConnell v. Federal Election Commission
This case considers whether the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which banned 'soft money' donations and regulated political advertising, viola...
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19-465Chiafalo v. Washington
This case asked whether Washington could fine presidential electors who broke their pledge and voted for someone other than the candidate who won the ...
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19-251Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta
This case was about a California rule requiring charities that raise money in the state to give the attorney general the names and addresses of their ...
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19-1257Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee
This case was about whether two Arizona voting rules unlawfully burden minority voters: a rule refusing to count ballots cast in the wrong precinct on...
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17-333Besinek v. Lamone
Republican voters challenged Maryland’s 2011 redesign of the Sixth Congressional District, claiming state officials redrew it to punish them for suppo...
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17-586Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al., Appellants v. Shannon Perez, et al.
1. Whether the district court issued an appealable interlocutory injunction when it invalidated Texas' duly enacted redistricting plan and ordered the...
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18-281Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill
Virginia voters challenged 11 Virginia House of Delegates districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders, and a federal district court struck those...
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19-974Schmitt v. Larose
This case involves a challenge to subject-matter restrictions on ballot initiatives, specifically asking whether such restrictions are subject to stri...
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23-719Trump v. Anderson
The Court unanimously reversed Colorado's decision excluding Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. It held that states ma...
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22-807Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
The Supreme Court ruled that South Carolina's congressional redistricting plan was not an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, finding that the lower ...
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