That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The ...

"This Court has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the Voting Rights Act over the last couple of decades," a voting rights ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...

The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

Experts warn that the Supreme Court could be poised to deliver a ruling that will functionally dismantle the Voting Rights ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters.

An appeals court had ruled only the federal government can sue to enforce a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act, ...

WASHINGTON - The 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday was overshadowed by a risk the Supreme Court is close ...

The justices may limit the ability of courts to take race into account when trying to remedy under-representation by minority ...

The Supreme Court signaled Friday that it will take a broader look at a high-profile redistricting fight over Louisiana’s ...

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and it's clear that Texans still needs its protections.