The justices have shown a willingness to chip away at the landmark civil rights legislation. A Louisiana case could unravel ...

Two years ago, the US Supreme Court surprised observers and even some inside the court when it narrowly preserved the 1965 Voting Rights Act and race-based remedies intended to counteract historic ...

The conservative majority could use the case to further weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act, which was enacted to protect ...

The march for voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to the capital of Montgomery in 1965 wasn’t meant to lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. But then came the horror of the scenes on the Edmund ...

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 ...

This August marked the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – the landmark United States federal law that banned racial discrimination in voting. But six decades later, many of its ...

This week, dozens of Texas House Democrats will likely commemorate the Voting Rights Act’s 60th anniversary after fleeing the Lone Star state Sunday. Their attempt to stop state Republicans from ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered Alabama lawmakers to draw new state Senate districts after ruling the state violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the influence of Black voters around the ...

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 ...

On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most consequential victories in American history. Nearly a century after the 15th Amendment promised Black ...