A New Jersey Assembly panel approved bill creating state-level voting protections, as advocates warn of federal attacks on ...

Osseo Area Schools, a notable education and disability rights case on the Court’s current docket. The ruling ensures that ...

Progressive advocacy groups are dismayed by what they say was a lackluster effort by Senate Democrats to scrutinize President ...

Some previous deployments restored peace after local crackdowns or vigilante violence, but sometimes troops intensified ...

The department has reversed course, abandoning much of its inherited voting rights caseload and leaving the state of Section ...

The last time was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the National Guard to protect Civil Rights marchers from ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 18 others urging the Eighth Circuit to uphold the VRA provision defending the right to ...

AG William Tong joined a coalition of attorney generals in filing an amicus brief supporting the right of Americans to cast ...

For decades, voters and organizations have successfully brought lawsuits against racially discriminatory voting rules under ...

Four and a half months later, the lanky Texan would return to the U.S. Capitol to sign the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965, whose 50th anniversary is being celebrated this week. The Voting ...

But my fundamental premise is that before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which I think is the most important piece of legislation ever passed in American history, this was functionally an apartheid ...

The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act was introduced last week by more than 200 House Democrats ahead of the anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, voting rights marchers walked ...