Opponents rally before a Texas House redistricting committee public hearing Monday at the University of Texas at Arlington on Monday, July 28, 2025. Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer Sixty years ago ...
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It sure looks like the Voting Rights Act is doomed
Two things were obvious at Wednesday morning’s Supreme Court argument in Louisiana v. Callais, a case asking the Court to abolish longstanding safeguards against racially gerrymandered legislative ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Voting Rights Act, a landmark law barring discrimination in voting, was a product of the U.S. civil rights era, sought by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Martin Luther King, ...
Voting rights activists were relieved in 2023 when, in a surprise to some, the Supreme Court upheld the most important remaining element of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling forced Alabama and later ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court’s conservative justices have indicated that they are set to strike down a portion of the Voting Rights Act of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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 ...
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 ...
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Is this the year the Voting Rights Act dies?
Commentary: Chief Justice John Roberts has tried for years to weaken the Voting Rights Act. With a coming Supreme Court ...
The Court of Appeals kept in tact a 2022 law that strengthened voting rights of New Yorkers, tailored to prohibit vote dilution of historically marginalized and disenfranchised communities. The Empire ...
In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court of the United States has the opportunity to stop the separation, division, and segregation that federal courts are sanctioning in redistricting cases ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared inclined to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act to force states to draw electoral districts favorable to minority voters.The court's six conservative ...
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