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, ...

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

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

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has set the date it will hear new arguments in a Louisiana case that could have ripple effects for ...

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

Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, Black Americans are facing ...

The U.S. Supreme Court signaled on Friday that it will assess the legality of a key component of a landmark federal voting ...

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