Supreme Court leans toward further weakening landmark Voting Rights Act

The conservative majority seems willing to raise the bar on plaintiffs seeking to challenge legislative district maps for ...

'Birth certificate of multiracial democracy': NAACP attorney makes case to save Voting Rights Act

Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, argued her first case in front of the Supreme ...

After Voting Rights Act case arguments, concerns over diminished minority representation rise

Black lawmakers and voting rights advocates are expressing concern about a potential decline in minority political ...

Parties Brace for a Political Future Without the Voting Rights Act

After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to ...

If the Voting Rights Act Falls

The Supreme Court appears ready to hobble the landmark civil-rights law. What does that mean for Black voters, democracy, and ...

Supreme Court case could grant Trump and Republicans power to trample Black voting rights for one-party rule, advocates warn

They can literally create a permanent one-party rule system without the Voting Rights Act in place–and doing it at the ...

Rally outside Supreme Court as justices debate centerpiece legislation of the Civil Rights Movement

The Supreme Court appears inclined to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act to force states to draw electoral districts ...