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

The House of Representatives passed the SAVE Act, a bill Republicans have celebrated but that has drawn the ire of voting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) filed a challenge to the county’s 2021 Board of Supervisors and Board of Education redistricting plans on behalf of four voters who live ...

We’ve seen this before. From literacy tests and poll taxes to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, every gain in voting rights has been met with efforts to roll them back. This is just ...

Chief Justice John Roberts all but pulled the equal-sovereignty doctrine out of thin air to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in 2013. Just last year, the court effectively wrote the ...

It is no secret that Segregationist Democrats disenfranchised poor whites, Southern Blacks and other minority groups for years before the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 1964 ...

The federal court plowed new ground when they ruled that Alabama’s Legislature did not have the right to draw its own ...