For many Black Americans, the right to vote is sacred in a democracy, and when those entrusted to protect it undermine it, the betrayal cuts deeply.

Divided along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2006, issued a ruling that severely weakens a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision, known as Section ...

(This story has been refiled to remove the video) By Donna Bryson SELMA, Alabama, May 18 (Reuters) - Betty Strong Boynton ...

The gerrymandering of House districts is becoming more rampant across the U.S. The word “gerrymander” was coined in America more than 200 years ago as an unflattering way to describe the political ...

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...

It was signed into law by a president who had won election in one of the largest landslides in American history. It was ...

The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act marks a pivotal moment for election law — and an overdue course correction for how states approach redistricting. For decades, provisions of the ...

For decades, Black Floridians organized block by block to claim a right long denied to them — the vote. Civil rights leaders like Harry T. Moore and Mary McLeod Bethune built statewide networks to ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...

The Supreme Court weakened Section 2, the linchpin of the 1965 civil rights legislation that prohibits diluting the electoral power of voters of color. But the statute’s fingerprints can be seen all ...