Caitlin is a paralegal and litigation associate at Protect Democracy. Before joining PD, Caitlin was an investigator at the Southern Center for Human Rights, leading fact investigations for class ...

Protect Democracy and co-counsel represent Common Cause and four individual voters in a lawsuit to stop the Department of Justice (DOJ) from building an unprecedented national voter database. The DOJ ...

The U.S. Constitution explicitly gives states the authority to determine the “Times, Places and Manner” to run federal elections and carefully limits federal involvement in election administration.

Since 2016, President Trump and his administrations have made non-citizen voting central to their misleading claims about election results. Even in elections the president won, he has claimed that non ...

Protect Democracy works not just to uphold laws, but to strengthen them in the face of evolving authoritarian threats. We advance policies to balance institutional power and keep our leaders in check.

Noncitizens are prohibited from voting by multiple federal laws and illegal voting is a crime in every state. But as you’ve likely read, the lie that noncitizen voting is a major threat to U.S.

In November 2023, just after off-year elections and as states were preparing for the upcoming presidential primaries, a registered voter in Waterford Township, Michigan challenged the voting ...

Since Donald Trump has returned to the presidency, we have seen numerous Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations and prosecutions against his political opponents, often presaged by direct threats ...

The founders always intended for the House of Representatives to grow with the country. The House of Representatives is stuck. For over 100 years, it’s been frozen at 435 members. Yet the number 435 ...

In the first two weeks of his second administration, President Trump has issued a slew of executive actions targeting federal employees, including a revised Schedule P/C (formerly known as Schedule F) ...

The 2024 presidential election will be unique for many reasons, not least because one of the likely major-party nominees is Donald Trump, a former president who is facing 88 felony criminal charges in ...

Gerrymandering is not a new problem in the United States. Even the founding generation was not immune to its temptations: Patrick Henry famously attempted to have Virginia’s very first congressional ...