Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to fortify the 15th Amendment, which gave Black men the right to vote, and end ...

The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect ...

The high court says it's OK to discriminate racially in drawing congressional districts as long as lawmakers are seeking partisan gerrymandering.

Divided along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2006, issued a ruling that severely weakens a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision, known as Section ...

I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote,” she stated. “I ...

By Sam D. Hayes In a major ruling that would permit weakening the voting power of minorities in the United States, the Supreme Court on April 29, 2026, struck down a Black-majority district in ...

The latest Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act has drawn a strong response from activists, Democrats and ...

The Supreme Court has weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which was designed to outlaw discriminatory voting practices to make the voting playing field equal for Black people.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday kicked yet another leg out from under the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 civil rights law that Chief Justice John Roberts’ court has repeatedly undermined over the ...