Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...

Governor Pritzker and the Illinois State Board of Elections has been sued in the Middle District of Illinois alleging violations of the Voting Rights Act, by the way the ...

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

The Supreme Court last week delivered in Callais v. Louisiana, a ruling that demolished the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, ...

The justices aren’t elected, but the people who pick them are. This new affront to democracy by the high court is also ...

Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law ...

Louisiana had been ordered by lower courts to create a second majority-Black congressional district in 2024 to comply with ...

NPR's Emily Feng speaks with historian Peter Canellos about the Supreme Court's recent voting rights decision and Justice ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Supreme Court today gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act — making it harder for minorities ...

For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the ...

In its 6–3 decision, the court gutted the legislation that ended apartheid in this country—and once again gave white people the ability to suppress Black political power.

Remember when Indiana Jones nonchalantly chose to hip-shoot his way out of a duel with a threatening swordsman? It was pragmatism over pageantry. Simple versus struggle. Bullet beats blade.