Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic ...

The Supreme Court is revisiting the Voting Rights Act, potentially altering safeguards against discriminatory voting maps.

U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has long telegraphed his desire to gut crucial portions of the Voting Rights Act, ...

The justices opted not to rule on a Louisiana redistricting case involving racial gerrymandering.

The court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act. Support ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 changed all that because courageous Americans like John Lewis put their lives on the line. Over the past decade, ...

President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President’s Room near the Senate Chambers on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 6.

Sunday marked 58 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Since then, local voting rights activist have said there have been multiple challenges to the right to vote.

On Aug. 4, 1965, the United States Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This “act to enforce the 15th Amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment ...

And what we are left with is a voting rights act now that neither has all of the protections that it should, nor has it been updated to meet the challenges of 2023 and 2024 and 2025 and 2026. So ...

And the fact that it's doing so in this case is puzzling." "Voting Rights Act watchers have been predicting a major shift around the Voting Rights Act for over a decade," says Atiba Ellis, a law ...