First , there was “bloody Sunday” and “turnaround Tuesday,” then there was a rally in Boston in 1965 over housing ...

The SAVE Act will erect additional barriers to people exercising the right to vote, the League of Women Voters’ Judith E.

To make the constitutional promises a reality, we needed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 24th Amendment barring poll taxes, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 ...

But my fundamental premise is that before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which I think is the most important piece of legislation ever passed in American history, this was functionally an apartheid ...

With voting rights weakened by the U.S. Supreme Court, Colorado Democrats are seeking ways to strengthen them, particularly in municipal elections. However, the bill to do so will likely draw ...

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 ...

By restoring key elements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and addressing loopholes exploited to undermine fair elections, the act will ensure everyone has an equal opportunity to participate in ...

This month, attorneys for the U.S. government dropped two lawsuits over the rights of voters of ... could further weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. In one of the dropped lawsuits ...