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Native American tribes in North Dakota challenged a state legislative map they said dilutes their voting power. An appeals ...
"This Court has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the Voting Rights Act over the last couple of decades," a voting rights ...
The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.
A federal appeals court panel has ruled that private individuals and organizations cannot bring voting rights cases under a ...
A federal appeals court on Monday overturned a lower court ruling that had prevented enforcement of an Arkansas law limiting ...
The justices are reviewing a federal appeals court ruling which held that only the federal government can sue to protect ...
The order guarantees voters, at least for now, the ability to sue to enforce rights guaranteed under the landmark 1965 law.
(CNN) — Here is a look at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which serves to protect and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments. It was enacted in response to voter suppression in the 1960s by state ...
The Supreme Court paused a lower court's ruling that would have weakened the Voting Rights Act on Thursday, granting Native ...
Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act Black Americans fighting some of the battles already won.
An appeals court ruling that said private parties cannot file VRA lawsuits goes against settled law, attorneys said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a lower-court ruling in a redistricting dispute in North Dakota that ...