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 ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century, a change that would ...

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

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 sign the bill ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting Rights ...

This week, dozens of Texas House Democrats will likely commemorate the Voting Rights Act’s 60th anniversary after fleeing the Lone Star state Sunday. Their attempt to stop state Republicans from ...

The friction was on full display at a Senate hearing on Tuesday. Partisan divides were on full display Tuesday morning as the Senate Judiciary Committee discussed a wave of restrictive voting ...

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 ...