"This Court has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the Voting Rights Act over the last couple of decades," a voting rights ...

Native American tribes in North Dakota challenged a state legislative map they said dilutes their voting power. An appeals ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh granted a stay, but fellow conservatives Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would have denied the application ...

It’s the latest ruling from the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, saying only the government can bring lawsuits ...

A federal appeals court on Monday overturned a lower court ruling that had prevented enforcement of an Arkansas law limiting ...

The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.

The Supreme Court is revisiting the Voting Rights Act, potentially altering safeguards against discriminatory voting maps. Justice Clarence Thomas, holding long-standing concerns that the VRA ...

The justices are reviewing a federal appeals court ruling which held that only the federal government can sue to protect ...

Georgia County Debacle Shows Why We Need a Voting-Rights Act With TeethIt took an army of lawyers, activists, journalists, and citizens to provide the scrutiny the Voting Rights Act of 1965 used ...

Nicole Austin-Hillery and Hans von Spakovsky talked about the origin of the Voting Rights Act, which President Johnson signed the act into law on August 6, 1965, and state voter identification laws.

Locally, the renewal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the topic of discussion at the 13th annual Judge Theodore McMillian Black History Month Dinner held recently at the Renaissance Grand Hotel.

Within two years, Congress passed and President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, creating an extraordinary solution to Southern discrimination that consigned some states and ...