The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark law enacted to enforce voting protections enshrined in the US Constitution and ...

Voting rights cases will come before the Supreme Court in this term with added attention and potential dread. Louisiana v.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1965, Congress passed landmark civil rights legislation to stop racial discrimination in voting; part of the law could be in ...

Commentary: Chief Justice John Roberts has tried for years to weaken the Voting Rights Act. With a coming Supreme Court ...

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

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history. Signed after the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, the faces of American politics have grown more diverse by nearly every measure, especially as racial minority communities gained political representation after longtime ...

The future of Black political representation is now at the mercy of the high court. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of the most important laws of our lifetime. The landmark civil rights law ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) is a landmark law that created legal procedures to stop race-based discrimination in voting and move the country closer to an inclusive and representative democracy ...

“Free and fair elections are one of the last bright lines left in our democracy, and passing the Vermont Voting Rights Act will protect that line for every Vermont voter,” said Senate Majority Leader ...