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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 ...
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 week marks the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and it's clear that Texans still needs its protections.
Larry Hamm and former Assemblyman Craig Stanley called for passage of state bills to counter what they view as voter ...
The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states. The ...
The justices may limit the ability of courts to take race into account when trying to remedy under-representation by minority ...
While the Voting Rights Act may be heading to its demise as a functional piece of legislation, it can still stand as a symbol ...
The Supreme Court has decided to maintain existing legal protections across most of the United States, ensuring that, for the ...
Like democracy, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 didn’t come with a lifetime warranty. The survival of both depends on our vigilance in protecting the vote, democracy’s most important lifeline.