In December, U.S. courts denied a barrage of legal requests that, if granted, would have allowed North Dakota to continue to illegally dilute votes cast by Native people.

North Dakota has a long and ongoing history of discrimination against Native Americans, including denying Native voters an equal voice in the state’s elections.

On June 27, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Moore v. Harper that state courts are an essential part of our system of checks and balances to protect voters from legislative overreach.