The Supreme Court's recent decision to dismantle key protections threatens to reverse decades of progress, demanding we ...

The Supreme Court recently delivered in Callais v. Louisiana a ruling that demolished the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, widely characterized as the crown jewel of the civil rights movement ...

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to fortify the 15th Amendment, which gave Black men the right to vote, and end ...

As the Voting Rights Act faces new threats, old tools of disenfranchisement are being repackaged for a new era.

In a single ruling that will undo decades of post-Jim Crow progress, the U.S. Supreme Court manages to pervert the Voting ...

Callais is the culmination of decades of its rulings limiting the Voting Rights Act. No one, including the court’s majority, disputes the impact of the decision: throughout the South, election ...

NPR's Emily Feng speaks with historian Peter Canellos about the Supreme Court's recent voting rights decision and Justice Samuel Alito's role in it.

Concerned voters gathered Thursday night to talk about how the Supreme Court ruling could change voting in Augusta and all ...

Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the civil rights movement. By Sonia A. Rao The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of ...

Governor Pritzker and the Illinois State Board of Elections has been sued in the Middle District of Illinois alleging violations of the Voting Rights Act, by the way the ...