The order guarantees voters, at least for now, the ability to sue to enforce rights guaranteed under the landmark 1965 law.

The Supreme Court is revisiting the Voting Rights Act, potentially altering safeguards against discriminatory voting maps. Justice Clarence Thomas, holding long-standing concerns that the VRA ...

Native American tribes in North Dakota challenged a state legislative map they said dilutes their voting power. An appeals ...

The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.

"This Court has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the Voting Rights Act over the last couple of decades," a voting rights ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which serves to protect and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments. It was enacted in response to voter suppression in the 1960s by state ...

Why a National Campaign for Voting Rights Is EssentialWhile a constitutional voting-rights amendment is unlikely, a national campaign could do much good, and Democrats are foolish if they don’t ...

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Voting Rights Act, a centerpiece of the civil rights movement that is still the subject of debate.

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"There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. ... Many of the issues of civil rights are very complex and most difficult. But about this there can ...

On Tuesday, March 7 – the 41st anniversary of “Bloody Selma,” when voting-rights activists were attacked by Alabama police – the national ACLU launched the “Every Voice. Every Vote ...