In Callais, a 6-3 court held that Louisiana’s map creating a second majority-black district was “an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.”

With its decision this week in Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court gutted a core part of the Voting Rights Act, Congress’s landmark prohibition on voting rules that have the effect of excluding pe...

Critics warn this is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise Black representation in Congress.

In the biggest jolt to abortion policy in the U.S. since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common ways to end early pregnancies, by block...

A federal appeals court temporarily reinstated a nationwide requirement that abortion pills be obtained in person, undermining access to the method of abortion that has only grown more widespread sinc...

The unanimous decision from the New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals represents a considerable triumph for anti-abortion campaigners.