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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday to restore and expand protections enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, their latest long-shot attempt to revive the landmark law ...
This month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the single most influential pieces of ...
The conservative court has subjected the law to death by a thousand cuts over the years — and now is poised to kill it ...
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, advocates want everyone to remember its full history — from the rocky period before its passage to its uncertain future.
Republicans are increasingly bullish they can whittle away at the Voting Rights Act (VRA) as Democrats renew a long-shot effort to broaden the landmark law that turns 60 next week. The Supreme ...
Voting Rights Act 60th anniversary marked by civil rights leader calling for federal action against widespread voter suppression efforts nationwide.
On this day 60 years ago, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. Its protections have been rolled back in recent years — and our fundamentally undemocratic Constitution is to blame. On March ...
The lawsuit alleges the redrawn districts in the new congressional map approved by the Texas Legislature are racially discriminatory.
U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco blocked the state from using the current map in the 2026 elections and said a new map must ...
A federal court ruled Friday that Alabama’s current state Senate district map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of ...
Hours after Texas lawmakers approved a new gerrymandered congressional map Saturday morning, Texans asked a court to block it. The plaintiffs*, a group of Black and Latino Texans, filed an amended ...