Explainer

The illegal order risks preventing millions of eligible American citizens from voting.

It took more than a century of fighting by generations of activists to achieve suffrage for all American women.

A quirk in the case-assignment rules for some federal court districts allows litigants to choose their judge.

Judges have a range of tools for enforcing their orders in the face of noncompliance.

Military personnel, aid workers, and other Americans living abroad have a right to vote, and there is a secure system that lets them do it.

State laws require officials to certify results, and safeguards are in place should someone fail to fulfill that obligation.

This detention and deportation power poses an alarming risk of abuse and rights violations in both wartime and peacetime.

The allegations are serious, but fraud in small donor matching programs gets caught.

The Court’s use of the Constitution to defend individual rights and liberties from the mid-20th to early 21st centuries stands in sharp contrast to its rulings before and since.

The best available data finds that changes in bail policy don’t affect crime rates.