Voting Rights Act is being gutted by Republicans and the Supreme Court From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News ...

The conservative court has subjected the law to death by a thousand cuts over the years — and now is poised to kill it ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to rehear a redistricting case that will have implications on the Voting Rights Act when ...

That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...

This month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the single most influential pieces of ...

12 years ago today, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act and we are still dealing with the fallout. Last year, I testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about how we *must ...

The justices may limit the ability of courts to take race into account when trying to remedy under-representation by minority voters.

The U.S. Supreme Court signaled on Friday that it will assess the legality of a key component of a landmark federal voting rights law, potentially giving its conservative majority a chance to gut a ...

The Supreme Court signaled Friday that it will take a broader look at a high-profile redistricting fight over Louisiana’s ...