Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...

With the Supreme Court shattering the district lines that created majority-Black seats in the American South and legislators scrambling to stay in office, the Congressional Black Caucus is wrestling ...

Michigan Democrats have for the past several years warned that the conservative majority on the Michigan Supreme Court could and eventually would dismantle key provisions of the federal Voting Rights ...

The Democratic congressman, appearing on "Meet the Press," called for reforms after the high court paved the way for ...

The recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to finish off the Voting Rights Act stands as a flaming exclamation point to that message. The court ruled 6-3 to significantly narrow a key provision of ...

The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect ...

Dems dealt blow in VRA case House approves FISA extension Powell staying on Fed board Congressional deaths tick up The Supreme Court’s ruling further curtailing the Voting ...

In the wake of Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court’s opinion over gerrymandering and redistricting of Congressional maps, a bevy of voices, overwhelmingly Black, have raised their opposition and ...

In a primary surrounded by questions and concerns about voting rights and representation, Alabama Democrats showed up to the polls in a way they haven’t done for a primary in a decade. Statewide, ...