That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...

WASHINGTON - The 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday was overshadowed by a risk the Supreme Court is close ...

The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

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

A major case now before the U.S. Supreme Court has some fearing that this year's anniversary of the Voting Rights Act may be ...

The justices may limit the ability of courts to take race into account when trying to remedy under-representation by minority ...

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and it's clear that Texans still needs its protections.

The Supreme Court signaled Friday that it will take a broader look at a high-profile redistricting fight over Louisiana’s ...

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

But as they look to reinstate key parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark civil rights-era law diminished over the past decade by Supreme Court rulings, they have accepted the reality ...