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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 court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...
March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their proce ...
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 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states. The law is under threat.
Experts warn that the Supreme Court could be poised to deliver a ruling that will functionally dismantle the Voting Rights ...
The Supreme Court signaled Friday that it will take a broader look at a high-profile redistricting fight over Louisiana’s ...
This week marks the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and it's clear that Texans still needs its protections.