Provisions in the Voting Rights Act were set to expire initially after five years but were later renewed a total of five ...

The conservative court has subjected the law to death by a thousand cuts over the years — and now is poised to kill it ...

Now, having saddled his party with unpopular initiatives and staring down the midterms, Trump has embarked on an authoritarian plan to keep the GOP in control in Washington: pass new congressional ...

WWL-TV has a piece up on a much-reported development in the Callais v Louisiana case at the Supreme Court which holds the ...

Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, Black Americans are facing ...

March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their proce ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to rehear a redistricting case that will have implications on the Voting Rights Act when ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was nominating five new judges to serve on federal trial courts in Alabama and ...

Is the US Supreme Court about to disenfranchise black Americans and other racial minority voters? You would think so, given ...

For the past week, the Texas House has been at a standstill after Democrats secretly left the state to block a vote on a ...

U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee continued her series of town halls in North Carolina’s fourth congressional last week by holding an ...

Aug. 6 marked the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights legislation that made voting possible ...