Challenges to Voting Rights Act reflect larger trend of erasing race-based protections

Court-ordered changes in redistricting policy is part of a conservative movement to roll back civil rights legislation create ...

After Voting Rights Act case arguments, concerns over diminished minority representation rise

Black lawmakers and voting rights advocates are expressing concern about a potential decline in minority political ...

If the Voting Rights Act Falls

The Supreme Court appears ready to hobble the landmark civil-rights law. What does that mean for Black voters, democracy, and ...

Justices Seemed Open to Further Limiting the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court appeared poised today to weaken a key provision of a landmark civil rights law by limiting the ability of ...

Rally outside Supreme Court as justices debate centerpiece legislation of the Civil Rights Movement

The Supreme Court appears inclined to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act to force states to draw electoral districts ...