Curtis had a tumultuous time on the court. Nominated by President Millard Fillmore in 1851 to replace Levi Woodbury, the ...

The census should include a question about immigration status, but the Constitution clearly states that illegal immigrants are to be included in House apportionment.

The U.S. Supreme Court wants to know if, by creating a second Black majority congressional district, Louisiana violated the U ...

The Supreme Court has decided to maintain existing legal protections across most of the United States, ensuring that, for the ...

Last weekend, outnumbered Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives, powerless to stop another self-serving ...

Texas Republicans are taking extraordinary measures to quell a quorum break by House Democrats designed to kill congressional redistricting.

My heart was full at the recent ceremony announcing the first recipients of the Williamsburg Descendant Scholarship program.

Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed what many in Austin speculated: he will call special session after special session until bills are ...

March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A ...

At dinner last weekend a friend asked me to reflect on this birthday and almost 50 years in Northampton. Which I’ve done. In ...

Like democracy, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 didn’t come with a lifetime warranty. The survival of both depends on our vigilance in protecting the vote, democracy’s most important lifeline.

The Voting Rights Act is quite likely dead given previous Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts, opines ...