Thompson, first elected to the U.S. House in 1993, is Mississippi’s lone Black congressman. He has been the only Democrat in ...

If the high court limits or strikes down Section 2, it would likely benefit Republicans. However, it wouldn't fully start ...

Here we go again. The Supreme Court keeps getting dragged into redistricting fights involving race, and this week the ...

Questions asked during a Supreme Court hearing last week suggest change is coming, but the extent seems to hinge on the ...

Thompson said that his father, an auto mechanic who died in 1964 before passage of the Voting Rights Act, never voted. His ...

The Voting Rights Act, a landmark law barring discrimination in voting, was a product of the U.S. civil rights era, sought by Nobel ...

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

Harris using her book tour to urge Democrats to lead a consistent, aggressive resistance to Trump while at the same time ...