Voting rights cases will come before the Supreme Court in this term with added attention and potential dread. Louisiana v.
The Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and other groups supported the ...
Our nation faces two concurrent threats to the foundation of American democracy: the Supreme Court’s consideration of Louisiana v. Callais, which threatens to topple what remains of the Voting Rights ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark law enacted to enforce voting protections enshrined in the US Constitution and eliminate longstanding obstacles to voter participation. Now, the Supreme ...
Voting rights advocates say the legislation would increase needless barriers for voters, and undermines trust in a secure election system.
Once again, America must confront a fundamental question: Will we protect the right to vote for every American, or allow the Voting Rights Act to be weakened beyond recognition? This week, the Supreme ...
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Guest Commentary written by Bernadette Reyes is a senior staff attorney for the UCLA Voting Rights Project and has ...
In October, one of the most consequential cases before the Supreme Court began. Six white justices, two Blacks and one Latina took the bench for arguments in Louisiana v. Callais. Addressing a core ...
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices and became one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement, some political observers assert that ...
As Martin Luther King Jr. Day marks 40 years, we must renew our fight to preserve voting rights in New Jersey and beyond.
Today in a historic ruling, a federal judge found that Virginia’s Constitution broke federal law by stripping the voting rights of every Virginian with a felony conviction, paving the way for ...