leading to the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act aims to honor this legacy by reinforcing the VRA's protections and addressing ...

Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act ... Johnson asked lawmakers to pass what is now known as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In his speech he repeated the phrase that symbolized the movement ...

And it’s not just democracy advocates who support this move — two-thirds of Coloradans agree. A new poll from the State ...

It is part of SCOTUSblog’s 2020 Election Litigation Tracker, a joint project with Election Law at Ohio State. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is widely considered to be the single most important federal ...

The federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark civil rights law ... have invoked civil rights hero and Selma marcher John Lewis’ name in federal legislation several times in recent years ...

Yet Lewis won the respect of a number of top Republicans and worked privately with them to reauthorize the 1965 Voting Rights Act, build an African-American history museum on the National Mall and ...

including enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), which has protected Americans’ right to vote since the civil rights era. Yet, in this time of uncertainty and national instability ...