ANTI-DEMOCRACY
AND DISCRIMINATORY
VOTER SUPPRESSION
SCORECARDS
AND DISCRIMINATORY
VOTER SUPPRESSION
SCORECARDS
The Anti-Democracy Scorecard tracks every election-related vote made by federal judges in 2020 and reports whether judges voted in favor of litigants seeking freedom to vote, ballot access, or lowered signature requirements. The Discriminatory Voter Suppression Scorecard tracks every election-related vote made by Republican-appointed federal judges in 2020 and compares how judges ruled in cases involving allegations of transparently racially discriminatory effects with how they ruled in cases not involving such allegations.
Data are current as of October 25, 2020.
Anti-Democracy Scores
Judges appointed by Democratic presidents
37%
71 anti-democracy rulings 119 pro-democracy rulingsJudges appointed by Republican presidents
79%
144 anti-democracy rulings 38 pro-democracy rulingsTrump Judges
83%
62 anti-democracy rulings 13 pro-democracy rulingsDISCRIMINATORY VOTER SUPPRESSION SCORES
Republican-appointed judges are more likely to allow voter suppression in cases where litigants demonstrate that policies would disproportionately harm people of color.