As state redistricting fights shape the 2026 midterms, history shows that voting rights in the U.S. have long seen cycles of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the landmark 1965 law that was a crowning achievement of the civil rights ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has often been called the crown jewel of the U.S. civil rights movement. But under a U.S. Supreme Court led for two decades by ...

WASHINGTON — President Lyndon B. Johnson knew the legislation he was about to sign was momentous, one that took courage for certain members of Congress to pass since the vote could cost them their ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first African American woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, issued a sharp dissent after the court ordered lower courts to revisit a major voting rights case involving ...

The timing brought the court into the middle of a fight to redraw voting maps across the South, even as some primaries were underway. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington If the Supreme Court ...

WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act - making it harder for minorities to challenge electoral maps as racially ...

Supreme Court Updates: Justices Further Weaken Voting Rights Act, Igniting Political Scramble The court’s conservative majority said it had upheld the landmark law, as liberal justices accused the ...

The Supreme Court’s invalidation of Louisiana’s congressional map has triggered a swirling debate about just how fundamentally the justices altered the Voting Rights Act landscape. Even the justices ...