In part 1 of this post, we explained how Callais v. Louisiana extinguished vote-dilution claims under the Voting Rights Act ...

The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect ...

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Black workers will feel it first. But if history is any guide, none of us ...

State Jim Crow laws created separate facilities for Black Americans. (Photo: "At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina." (Jack Delano, 1940. U.S. Library of Congress.) Tati King and Toni Johnson ...

I watched my parents go to the polls to vote in the early 1960s. They had to recite the preamble to the constitution while ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere, striking down a majority Black congressional district ...

CLEVELAND — Federal agents fanned out across Ohio last week, raiding the offices of a voting rights organization and showing up at employees’ homes. Five days later, U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown says they ...

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• Landmark voting rights case: The Supreme Court on Wednesday tossed out Louisiana’s long-contested congressional map as an unconstitutional gerrymander in a decision that could have implications for ...

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William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” Those who believe in free and fair elections and the rule of law in Florida and elsewhere across the United States are reeling after five ...

In this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, host Jimmy Hoover interviews law professor Michael Morley of Florida State University's Election Law Center about a major mail-voting case that could ...