A landmark ruling against the state of Louisiana has upended one of the major sections of the Voting Rights Act ...

As Republicans rush to redraw the region’s congressional maps, some voters are confused and concerned, and civil rights activists are gearing up for the fight of a generation.

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 truth, Callais did something far more extreme: it rewrote the VRA, and in doing so, made vote-dilution claims impossible.

The Voting Rights Act was not racial favoritism. It was a protection created in response to a long and documented history of racial violence and exclusion. However, the United States Supreme Court in ...

After recently weakening the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court avoided for now taking up a legal question that may ...

In a 6-3 decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district, ruling it an unconstitutional gerrymander.  The ruling has significant ...

The fallout from Louisiana v. Callais has been nothing short of tragic, with terrible echoes of the past. As Reconstruction ended in 1877, states in the South either killed, expelled, or used other ...

William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” Those who believe in free and fair elections and the rule of law in Florida and ...

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

All six conservative justices voted to gut the Voting Rights Act in a ruling that critics say will reshape political representation for Black Americans.

Michigan Democrats have for the past several years warned that the conservative majority on the Michigan Supreme Court could ...