The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark law enacted to enforce voting protections enshrined in the US Constitution and eliminate longstanding obstacles to voter participation. Now, the Supreme ...
Voting rights cases will come before the Supreme Court in this term with added attention and potential dread. Louisiana v.
The Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and other groups supported the ...
Legal professionals from across the nation will convene Feb. 4–9 in San Antonio for the American Bar Association 2026 Midyear Meeting, where attorneys, judges and legal scholars will examine pressing ...
Today in a historic ruling, a federal judge found that Virginia’s Constitution broke federal law by stripping the voting rights of every Virginian with a felony conviction, paving the way for ...
The fate of the Voting Rights Act, at issue in Louisiana v. Callais, might depend on a devastating decision from six years ago. In 2019, in Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court refused to ...
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 ...
The judge ordered the plaintiff’s legal team to justify why they shouldn’t face sanctions and attorney fees by Feb. 5.
Mississippi lawmakers and voting rights advocates gathered at the Mississippi State Capitol to introduce legislation aimed at ...
Labor and voting rights groups are looking to prevent the Trump administration from accessing Illinois' voter data.
Mississippi lawmakers are proposing a state-level voting rights act as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case that could ...
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Democratic leaders and voting rights advocates in Vermont came together to announce a new ...