"This Court has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the Voting Rights Act over the last couple of decades," a voting rights ...

That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The ...

The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...

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 ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

WASHINGTON - The 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday was overshadowed by a risk the Supreme Court is close ...

The justices may limit the ability of courts to take race into account when trying to remedy under-representation by minority ...

The U.S. Supreme Court signaled on Friday that it will assess the legality of a key component of a landmark federal voting ...

The Supreme Court gutted the heart of the Voting Rights Act in a decision in 2013. Eight years later, they further weakened the Voting Rights Act, making it harder to challenge potentially ...

The order guarantees voters, at least for now, the ability to sue to enforce rights guaranteed under the landmark 1965 law.

The Supreme Court signaled Friday that it will take a broader look at a high-profile redistricting fight over Louisiana’s ...