Callais is the culmination of decades of its rulings limiting the Voting Rights Act. No one, including the court’s majority, ...

The Voting Rights Act was not racial favoritism. It was a protection created in response to a long and documented history of ...

The Court, in a ruling powered by conservative members, blocked an electoral map that had given Louisiana a second Black-majority congressional district.

In its 6–3 decision, the court gutted the legislation that ended apartheid in this country—and once again gave white people the ability to suppress Black political power. Demonstrators outside the US ...

Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy.

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 ...

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court had to resolve an apparent tension between the 14th Amendment and the Voting ...

Concerned voters gathered Thursday night to talk about how the Supreme Court ruling could change voting in Augusta and all across the country.

EL PASO ( 25News Now) -More than 150 years ago, an El Paso barber made Illinois history when he became the first African ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court decided not to thrust another dagger into the nearly lifeless corpse of the Voting Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is arguably the most successful civil rights ...

From a contentious Senate race to five constitutional amendments, here is what you need to know about the Saturday elections.