Democracy Wire

The state's statute assumes that people who don't vote, whatever their reason, have moved and purges them from the voter rolls; in upholding it, the high court "ignores the history of voter suppression" connected with such purges across the country, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a scathing dissent.

Hidden donors are bankrolling more than one-third of the nation's governors and their policy agendas through phony non-profit groups.