This excerpt is from a piece by Rachel Rossi that originally ran at Democracy Docket on October 2, 2025.
With almost every passing day, it feels like the Trump administration further erodes our democracy. The retribution we’ve seen in McCarthy-like witch hunts and censorship in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, the military personnel policing our own cities, and the tragic disappearing of our neighbors are only the latest examples of our descent into authoritarianism.
Adding to the danger, our Supreme Court is continuing its anti-democratic work even in cases not directly involving the Trump administration. The court will begin its next term Monday, and the docket is already full of cases that will give the conservative majority opportunities to further diminish the power of the people.
Long before Trump came on the scene, the Roberts Court had been eagerly dismantling the Voting Rights Act (VRA), greenlighting gerrymandering, controlling access to the polls, and allowing the richest to dominate our politics through increasingly unlimited spending. In the upcoming term, the court has taken up cases that will allow it to continue dismantling our democracy and eroding our basic civil rights.