Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 15: Voting rights activists protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the court prepares to hear arguments ...

The Supreme Court seemed likely to limit race-based electoral districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act after hearing arguments by lawyers for Louisiana and the Trump administration.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court’s conservative justices have indicated that they are set to strike down a portion of the Voting Rights Act of ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the monumental achievements of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, was designed to not only eliminate voting barriers for African Americans, but also to ...

Gregory B. Craig, a Washington lawyer, was White House counsel from January 2009 to January 2010. On Aug. 6, 1965, I was working in Coahoma County, Miss., trying to register new voters at the ...

The future of Black political representation is now at the mercy of the high court. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of the most important laws of our lifetime. The landmark civil rights law ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, the faces of American politics have grown more diverse by nearly every measure, especially as racial minority communities gained political representation after longtime ...

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The Supreme Court’s conservative justices have indicated that they are set to strike down a portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The conservatives have expressed hostility to the portion of the ...