And, even more troublingly, the conservative supermajority’s questions made clear that Louisiana’s remedial map may not be the only thing in danger: The Voting Rights Act itself may also be on ...

President Donald Trump's new executive order aimed at tightening up election administration has triggered a wave of concern among voting-rights advocates who say it will likely make casting a ...

Sixty years ago, attacks on marchers in Selma helped lead to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act. Seeing federal courts slash away at the Voting Rights Act, some states are seeking to ...

In Allen v. Milligan (2023), the Court ruled that Alabama’s congressional maps violated the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial gerrymandering, and that the state must draw an ...

This is the third video in the “State Voting Rights Acts: Explained” video series created by the Center for American Progress and the Legal Defense Fund. This video is a collaboration between ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote ...

The move sparked immediate backlash from voting rights advocates who warn of widespread disenfranchisement. Under the directive, prospective voters must present official documents such as ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...

The move, which is likely to face swift challenges from voting rights organizations, is consistent with Trump’s long history of railing against election processes. He often claims elections are ...

Her photo, beaten and bloody, became a galvanizing cry to guarantee voting rights for Black Americans. And the day of peaceful protest that devolved into state-sanctioned violence was coined ...

The decision only affects local elections, as voting in national parliamentary elections has always been restricted to Estonian citizens. Estonia, a country of 1.36 million people, has a significant ...

Civil rights leaders and elected officials commemorated on Friday the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day voting and civil rights activists were violently beaten and injured by law ...