This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In 1982, when the Voting Rights Act was up for reauthorization, the Reagan Justice Department had a goal: ...

The Court of Appeals kept in tact a 2022 law that strengthened voting rights of New Yorkers, tailored to prohibit vote dilution of historically marginalized and disenfranchised communities. The Empire ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - The Voting Rights Act, a landmark law barring discrimination in voting, was a product of the U.S. civil rights era, sought by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Martin Luther ...

The Supreme Court on Oct. 15 appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century, a change that would boost ...

The U.S. Supreme Court appears to be on the cusp of overturning or weakening a key provision of the Voting Rights Act — and Lisa Graves said that comes as no shock to her. Graves — the author of a new ...

After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to reckon with an uncertain future. By Nick Corasaniti Nick Corasaniti has ...

The outcome of a major U.S. Supreme Court case could make it harder for Pennsylvania’s Hispanic voters to fight for representation.

Opponents rally before a Texas House redistricting committee public hearing Monday at the University of Texas at Arlington on Monday, July 28, 2025. Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer Sixty years ago ...

ALBANY — New York’s highest court has rejected an effort by the town of Newburgh to strike down a key section of the state’s voting rights law, which will allow a lawsuit that accuses the town of ...

The Voting Rights Act was passed to stop racial discrimination in voting. The case, Louisiana v. Callais, questions if states can comply with the Voting Rights Act without violating constitutional ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices and became one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement, some political observers assert that ...