WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have required 51 votes to pass ...

The Voting Rights Act was passed to stop racial discrimination in voting. The case, Louisiana v. Callais, questions if states can comply with the Voting Rights Act without violating constitutional ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears to be on the verge of weakening the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights era law that protects racial minorities’ voting power. During oral ...

This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais about the last remaining section of the Voting Rights Act, a civil-rights law designed to ensure that states could not get in ...

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 Court of Appeals says the town of Newburgh cannot mount a constitutional challenge, clearing the way for residents’ vote-dilution lawsuit to proceed.