Postmaster General David Steiner stoked fears among Democrats and voting rights groups this week after confirming the U.S.
This year, it’s all about defending our right to vote, by any means necessary. Period. All other issues begin at a distant second place, then fade in importance from there. The recent decision by the ...
After a major Supreme Court ruling, state-level voting rights acts and redistricting strategies in Democratic-led states are among the limited ways left for protecting racial-minority voters' power.
The bills create a state voting rights act that prohibits state agencies or local governments from infringing on citizens' right to vote in Michigan.
The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting since 1965. The case concerns a district in Louisiana.
Ten states currently have their own versions of the federal Voting Rights Act: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Virginia and Washington. California’s ...
The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect ...
Georgia state senator calls the gutting of much of what remained of the Voting Rights Act a “wake-up call” requiring return ...