WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights groups argue is vital for protecting democracy failed in the Senate Wednesday night. Democrats failed to change Senate rules to ...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have required 51 votes to pass ...

The justices’ ruling could help Republicans add 19 safe seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, potentially securing GOP ...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined 22 other attorneys general in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ...

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.

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting Rights Act ...

As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, the fragility of our rights and democracy is clear, but if ever there was a time to do both defense and offense, that time is now. An untrue hierarchy of human value ...