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Native American tribes in North Dakota challenged a state legislative map they said dilutes their voting power. An appeals ...
The Supreme Court blocked an appeals court ruling that would gut a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in a case brought ...
Justice Brett Kavanaugh granted a stay, but fellow conservatives Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would have denied the application ...
"This Court has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the Voting Rights Act over the last couple of decades," a voting rights ...
The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.
The order guarantees voters, at least for now, the ability to sue to enforce rights guaranteed under the landmark 1965 law.
(CNN) — Here is a look at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which serves to protect and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments. It was enacted in response to voter suppression in the 1960s by state ...
The Supreme Court paused a lower court's ruling that would have weakened the Voting Rights Act on Thursday, granting Native ...
This would eliminate the most common path people and civil rights groups use to sue under a key provision of the 60-year-old ...
Community members and elected officials gathered at Fenton’s First Presbyterian Church Thursday for a teach-in celebrating ...
Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act Black Americans fighting some of the battles already won.