The U.S. Supreme Court wants to know if, by creating a second Black majority congressional district, Louisiana violated the U ...

The Supreme Court has decided to maintain existing legal protections across most of the United States, ensuring that, for the ...

A lawsuit filed by the Virginia NAACP against Gov. Glenn Youngkin for an alleged failure to produce records in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has recently been ordered to a lower ...

Like democracy, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 didn’t come with a lifetime warranty. The survival of both depends on our vigilance in protecting the vote, democracy’s most important lifeline.

The Voting Rights Act is quite likely dead given previous Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts, opines ...

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 ...

A major case now before the U.S. Supreme Court has some fearing that this year's anniversary of the Voting Rights Act may be ...

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who pushed for national reforms, now says her party "cannot and will not unilaterally disarm." ...

As Texas attempts to redistrict its congressional seats, it could bring larger implications to Louisiana and the nation.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states ...

Thursday was the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and in Morgantown, the Community Coalition for Social Justice held a special celebration to commemorate the landmark civil ...

In doing so, the court would extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality. If ...