The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect ...

A landmark civil rights protection just shifted, and the ripple effects may reshape women’s political influence for years to come.

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Black workers will feel it first. But if history is any guide, none of us ...

After a major Supreme Court ruling, state-level voting rights acts and redistricting strategies in Democratic-led states are among the limited ways left for protecting racial-minority voters' power.

I watched my parents go to the polls to vote in the early 1960s. They had to recite the preamble to the constitution while ...

• Landmark voting rights case: The Supreme Court on Wednesday tossed out Louisiana’s long-contested congressional map as an unconstitutional gerrymander in a decision that could have implications for ...

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CLEVELAND — Federal agents fanned out across Ohio last week, raiding the offices of a voting rights organization and showing up at employees’ homes. Five days later, U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown says they ...

William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” Those who believe in free and fair elections and the rule of law in Florida and elsewhere across the United States are reeling after five ...

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In this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, host Jimmy Hoover interviews law professor Michael Morley of Florida State University's Election Law Center about a major mail-voting case that could ...