In 1982, when the Voting Rights Act was up for reauthorization, the Reagan Justice Department had a goal: preserve the VRA in ...

The highest court in our nation has eroded civil rights, weakened the landmark Voting Rights Act, limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to perform its core task, and denied women ...

This is an adapted excerpt from the Oct. 19 episode of “Velshi.” One of the crown jewels of the Civil Rights Movement is the Voting Rights Act, which was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson ...

There is a wicked irony that as the United States marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement, the country’s highest court is edging closer to gutting one of the movement’s greatest ...

John Roberts may represent a greater threat to the constitutional order established in 1789 and the nation whose 250th ...

Twenty years ago this week, John Roberts became the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and embarked on a campaign to dismantle vital legal precedents and landmark laws, like the Voting Rights Act ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the ...

This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais about the last remaining section of the Voting Rights Act, a civil-rights law designed to ensure that states could not get in ...