The Supreme Court is About to Decide the Future of Your Vote
Defending Democracy with Marc Elias
Democracy Docket
4.9 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court didn't issue any opinions on major democracy cases this week — but the decisions that will shape our country's future are coming. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the three biggest cases on the docket: RNC v. Watson, which could ban states from counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day; NRSC v. FEC, a campaign finance case Marc personally argued before the court; and Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case, which has sweeping implications for voter ID.
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| 0:26.7 | lead. Terms and conditions apply. Hey, everyone. This is Mark Elias, founder of Democracy |
| 0:32.2 | Docket. At least for this week, we can all exhale. And that is because the United States Supreme Court |
| 0:38.6 | did not issue any opinions in any of the big democracy-related cases. You know, T.S. Eliot said |
| 0:45.9 | that April was the cruelest month. That's because T.S. Eliot was not a voting rights or democracy |
| 0:52.0 | lawyer who had to suffer through every June as the |
| 0:56.3 | Supreme Court issued the most important decisions of its term. And look, that's what I'm up to. |
| 1:02.0 | That's what the team at Democracy Docket is up to. And I know that for many of you, that is what |
| 1:06.2 | you are counting on us to keep you informed about. And so let me start by just asking you to do me one favorite. |
| 1:12.3 | It's the only thing I'm going to ask you to do, which is to become a DemocracyDocket subscriber. |
| 1:15.9 | The link to do so is on the screen in front of you. It's in the description of this episode. |
| 1:20.2 | Or you can type in Democracydocket.com slash YouTube. What is it that we are all stressing about? |
| 1:26.7 | What is it that we are waiting to happen |
| 1:29.1 | in June when after all, we've already had a lot of really bad decisions from this Supreme Court |
| 1:35.4 | in the run-up to June, right? Remember, we had the Clay decision in May that wreaked havoc on all |
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