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In a speech before he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the landmark civil rights law, “Today we strike away the last major shackle…the Negro story and the American story fuse and blend.” “The vote is ...
The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to rehear a case that will have implications on the Voting Rights Act when its next term begins in October. The high court posted an order in the case Louisiana vs. Callais on Aug. 1, directing the parties involved to ...
When the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court return to the bench Oct. 6, they will hear cases impacting core constitutional issues, including equal protection, free speech and voting rights, that will generate widespread legal, political and public interest.
The high court’s review of Louisiana’s redistricting case could dismantle decades of hard-won gains under the Voting Rights Act. After the Supreme Court signaled on Oct. 1 that it would seek to probe whether or not states violate the Constitution when ...
MANSFIELD, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Congress is on break, so Representative Cleo Fields is using his time off to visit each of the ten parishes in his district. He spoke with residents in Mansfield this week about the town’s aging infrastructure, along with ...
Last Friday, the Supreme Court all but announced how it would rule on the future of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The case in question, Louisiana v. Callais, which was heard for the first time in March, is a dispute over the drawing of the state’s six ...
This month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the single most influential pieces of legislation in American history. The policy that finally, almost 200 years after our nation’s inception, brought us to the cusp of ...
Of all the rights the Founding Fathers bequeathed to us in the Constitution, voting rights for people other than white men with property wasn’t one of them. Unpleasant fact that it is, for most of this nation’s history, Democrats and Republicans fought ...
Black South Carolinians voted in 1948 for the first time since Reconstruction. This successful crusade, like many others, helped lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Black South Carolinians voted in 1948 for the first time since Reconstruction. This ...
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