If upheld by the Supreme Court, as seems likely, the challenge to Section 2 would turn the Voting Rights Act on its head.

The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 significantly increased Black voter participation, particularly in the South. Modern challenges like restrictive voter ID laws and court decisions threaten the ...

Sixty years ago today, a landmark piece of voting rights legislation was signed into law — a policy that has aimed to course-correct America’s wobbled experiment of representative democracy. The ...

The Supreme Court is set to weigh in on laws like the Voting Rights Act and limits on coordinated party expenditures.

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices have indicated that they are set to strike down a portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The conservatives have expressed hostility to the portion of the ...

The Supreme Court could reshape U.S. elections for years to come as it hears a number of cases with implications for the ...

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 ...

Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: Voting Rights and Protest; 1. Black Voters and the Federal Voting Rights Enforcement Effort ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from tradition, then-President Lyndon Johnson went to Capitol Hill to sign the bill ...

William Faulkner famously wrote that, “the past is never dead. It’s not even past,” but the Supreme Court is deeply divided on that question—at least as it pertains to the historic Voting Rights Act.

WASHINGTON -- Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting Rights Act ...