A judge ruled it unconstitutional to enforce a law protecting voters based on race or national origin. She struck down the ...

The judge ruled that the law is unconstitutional because it protects certain minority groups from discrimination when it ...

That requirement was stripped from the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision. New York's ...

“All four of our cases on voting rights issues in Alabama will continue” after election day, Jess Unger says.

Frequently, early voting involved a voter placing colored balls or corn kernels or beans into a box, which were then counted.

Monday's decision puts the spotlight back on an enforcement provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act, Section 2. While Louisiana's majority-Black District 6 will stand for Tuesday's election, the ...

As we get closer to Election Day — early voting begins Monday — I feel compelled to remind folks, especially young Black folks, how important it is to vote. I’m not here to tell you who to ...

Download the full Language Access report The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) and other federal laws designed to protect voters of color from discrimination have helped remove many of the obstacles ...

Clark also pointed to the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would reinstate a portion of the 1965 Voting Rights ...

Almost 100 years later, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished these roadblocks to voting for Black men and women. But that changed in 2023, when the Supreme Court gutted one of the Act’s key ...

of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” the release said. Staff members with the justice department are regularly deployed to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws in communities ...

Clark also pointed to the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would reinstate a portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act nullified by the Supreme Court in 2013. The axed provision had ...