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Oct 2 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
.@marceelias isn't exaggerating — this week will be incredibly busy for voting rights and democracy in the courts. Here's what will be happening, what you need to know and how you can stay updated.⤵️🧵
⚖️Monday, Oct. 3: The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit claiming that a state law requiring photo ID to vote was passed with the intent to discriminate against Black voters in violation of the NC Constitution. democracydocket.com/cases/north-ca…
Oral arguments will start at 1:00 pm ET tomorrow. We'll be live tweeting the court proceedings, and you can watch along here.👇 youtube.com/channel/UCWo6z…
⚖️Monday, Oct. 3: A trial starts in South Carolina in a lawsuit arguing that SC's congressional map is racially gerrymandered in violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments.

The trial won't be streamed, but you can find out more about the case below. democracydocket.com/cases/south-ca…
⚖️Tuesday, Oct. 4: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan, a case challenging that Alabama's congressional map violates Section 2 of the VRA by diluting the voting strength of Black Alabamians. democracydocket.com/cases/alabama-…
Oral arguments in Merrill will begin Tuesday at 10:00 am ET and will be streamed on the U.S. Supreme Court's website: supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…

We'll be live tweeting the arguments and providing updates on our website.⤵️
democracydocket.com/news-alerts/li…
After oral arguments on Tuesday, join us and @marceelias on Twitter Spaces to discuss what happened with special guests @Abha_Khanna_ (one of the attorneys arguing the case before SCOTUS!) and @marinakate31.

Set your reminder for Tuesday, 3:00 pm ET!
twitter.com/i/spaces/1djGX…
⚖️Tuesday, Oct. 4: The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the state's court-adopted congressional and legislative maps.
democracydocket.com/cases/north-ca…
Moore v. Harper, the U.S. Supreme Court case promoting the ISL theory, grew out of this lawsuit. Litigation over redistricting is continuing at both SCOTUS & state levels. Tuesday's proceedings are for the state-level appeal; SCOTUS has not scheduled oral arguments in Moore yet.
We won't be covering oral arguments live, but we'll provide updates after.

You can watch the arguments here.👇 youtube.com/channel/UCWo6z…
⚖️Wednesday, Oct. 5: There will be a hearing in Wisconsin in a lawsuit seeking to end the Wisconsin Elections Commission's absentee ballot spoiling guidance.
democracydocket.com/cases/wisconsi…
"Spoiling" is when an absentee ballot is discarded and disqualified from being counted. The guidance allows voters to ask election officials to spoil their absentee ballots and get a new one if a voter makes a mistake, receives a damaged ballot or opts to vote in person instead.
⚖️Thursday, Oct. 6: The Delaware Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the state's no-excuse mail-in voting law. Oral arguments begin at 9:30 am ET.
democracydocket.com/cases/delaware…
We'll be live tweeting the oral arguments, and you can watch along here: livestream.com/delawaresuprem…
⚖️Thursday, Oct. 6: The 5th Circuit will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the residency restrictions in Texas voter suppression law #SB1111 for violating the U.S. Constitution.
democracydocket.com/cases/texas-re…
Oral arguments will be streamed, but we don't know exactly when they will start due to how the court runs. But we'll be live tweeting the arguments and will let you know when they begin!

🎧You can listen to the audio stream on Thursday here: 5thcircuit.streamguys1.com/east
⚖️Friday, Oct. 7: There will be a hearing in a lawsuit from a conservative group seeking to limit the use of drop boxes in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. democracydocket.com/cases/pennsylv…
Democracy is on the docket this week, and we're here to help you stay informed. To get weekly updates on everything going on in the courts related to voting rights and democracy, subscribe to our free weekly newsletter! democracydocket.com/newsletters
On Friday, discuss all the court news of the week and ask questions with @marceelias and @paigemoskowitz on the latest episode of Defending Democracy here on Twitter Spaces.

Set a reminder for Oct. 7 at 2:00 pm ET.🗓
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🚨STARTING NOW: The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan, a case with significant implications for voting rights.

Follow along for live updates here and on our website.
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🚨TODAY: Merrill v. Milligan is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Oral arguments start at 10:00 am ET. Here are the key parties and groups in the case that you'll hear argue today.🧵
⚖️MERRILL: Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) and state Republican lawmakers. They are representing the state of Alabama and want to keep the state's discriminatory congressional map in place.
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🚨STARTING NOW: Oral arguments begin in the North Carolina Supreme Court over the state's law requiring photo ID to vote. Get background below and follow for live updates!

📺Watch along here:
The attorney for the legislative defendants begins: "The Superior Court's determination that #SB824 was motivated by a desire to entrench Republicans by targeting African American voters is unsupportable both as a matter of law and as a matter of fact."
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Oct 3
🚨⚖️COURT ALERT: Today the North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit arguing that a state law requiring photo ID to vote was passed with the intent to discriminate against Black voters in violation of the NC Constitution.

Here’s what you need to know.🧵
In the 2018 elections, North Carolinians approved a state constitutional amendment requiring photo ID to vote. Also during these elections, Republicans lost super-majority control of the NC Legislature.
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🚨BREAKING: Montana judge STRIKES DOWN 3 voter suppression laws that ban Election Day registration, limit ballot collection and increase restrictions on acceptable photo ID to vote, ruling that they violate the Montana Constitution. More info to come. democracydocket.com/cases/montana-…
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On Tuesday, Oct. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan, a case that could effectively eliminate the power behind Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which protects against racial vote dilution.

Here’s what you need to know.👇🧵
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) — the most litigated provision of the VRA — currently prohibits any law that has the intent or effect of denying or abridging the right to vote “on account of race or color.”
Since the VRA was enacted in 1965, Section 2 has been used in redistricting litigation to strike down maps that dilute the voting strength of minority voters by “packing” and “cracking” them across districts to prevent minority groups from electing preferred candidates.
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