How the conservative Supreme Court has reshaped this year's midterms

Demonstrators hold signs in support of minority voting rights outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on October 15, 2025. - Celal Gunes/Anadolu/Getty Images Voters will pick the winners of next month’s midterm elections, but it is the conservative Supreme Court that has set the rules. Long before early voting got underway to decide control of Congress, the court exerted an unusually profound impact on the election with a series of decisions that have reshaped redistricting, campaign finance regulations, efforts to identify noncitizen voters and mail voting – frequently in a way that…