This is the sixth video in the “State Voting Rights Acts: Explained” video series created by the Center for American Progress and the Legal Defense Fund. This video is a collaboration between the ...

WASHINGTON ‒ On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil right lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again. The ...

An argument for why the Supreme Court should strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act for a better brand of politics.

The justices will decide the future of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. When a federal court concluded Louisiana’s 2022 congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against ...

WASHINGTON — The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from tradition, then-President Lyndon Johnson went to Capitol Hill to ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please ...

This essay is part of a series by Lawyers Defending American Democracy where we demonstrate the link between the administration's sweeping executive actions and their roots in the authoritarian ...

When the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court return to the bench Oct. 6, they will hear cases impacting core constitutional issues, including equal protection, free speech and voting rights, that will ...

We, the daughters of the suffragist movement, write in our opposition to the SAVE Act (S. 128), which was passed by the House and is currently before the Senate. Karen shares ancestry with Susan B.

This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. “In my ideal society, we would vote as households,” Doug Wilson, an extreme right-wing pastor said in a video ...