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🧵NEW: The Supreme Court's fall term kicks off TODAY! They'll spend the next week deciding which cases to hear — and some could directly impact the future of democracy. Here are four key voting rights and election cases we'll be on the lookout for👇

FLORIDA CENSUS STATISTICAL METHOD The GOP seeks to block the 2020 methods used by the Census Bureau to account for harder-to-reach people — like young voters and immigrants — from being used in 2030. The lawsuit represents GOP efforts to further dilute representation of non-Republican voters.

WASHINGTON LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING Latino voters argued Washington's 2022 legislative map gave them too little voting power — the GOP challenged the remedial map as a racial gerrymander. These cases could be the next major attack on the Voting Rights Act after Callais.

HAWAII VOTER ROLL ACCESS A right-wing group is asking the Court to decide whether Hawaii’s voter registration lists must be publicly disclosed under federal law. The Court is unlikely to decide whether it'll take the case until at least Oct. 26.