Callais is the culmination of decades of its rulings limiting the Voting Rights Act. No one, including the court’s majority, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson marked the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 along with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Louisiana congressional map that a group of voters who describe themselves as ...

Reducing the power of voters of color hurts Democrats and helps Republicans.

After the Supreme Court threw out Louisiana's congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, the fight turned to what happens next.

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the ...

The Court’s conservative majority used outdated examples to say the racial gap in voter turnout has closed, but in reality, ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday kicked yet another leg out from under the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 civil rights ...

The Supreme Court’s invalidation of Louisiana’s congressional map has triggered a swirling debate about just how ...

In a 6-3 ruling Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority struck down one of Louisiana’s majority-Black ...

"Both noncitizen voting and in-person voter fraud are virtually nonexistent — they simply do not happen," Bouie explained. "Election officials aren’t flying blind either; every state that requires ...

The groups are working to educate voters in the South about how they would be affected if the court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. By Audra D. S. Burch and Emily Cochrane ...