The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cautiously praised the hard-won Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a “great step forward” toward removing ...

"Voters have a right to choose between every candidate the Constitution makes eligible. The Secretary of State does not get ...

The Supreme Court issued a momentous ruling that clarified the way that the American legal system handled charges of ...

The Voting Rights Act has been near death since 2013, and Wednesday the Supreme Court administered the coup de grâce. In a ...

This will lead to significant changes to district maps for political offices at all levels of government, as it should.

Rand Paul (R-KY) proposed an amendment on Thursday to “protect United States citizenship” and end birthright citizenship ...

Voter exclusion was never about men alone. And much is at stake for women in state and federal elections. Black Louisiana ...

The Supreme Court’s ruling that a Black-majority voting district in Louisiana is unconstitutional adds to a long and dismal ...

A new museum in Lancaster honors Thaddeus Stevens, a Civil War-era politician who championed civil rights and constitutional ...

The decision could touch off a scramble by Republicans to redraw majority-minority congressional districts, especially in the ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court hears a challenge to birthright citizenship, civil rights groups warn that weakening the 14th Amendment could put long-standing constitutional protections at risk and leave ...