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

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais, invalidating a congressional map that included a second majority ...

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.

Ever since the recent decision of the Supreme Court limiting the use of race in drawing congressional districts, there has ...

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 ...

Divided along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2006, issued a ruling that severely weakens a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision, known as Section ...

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 ...

Illinois lawmakers are not planning to pursue a constitutional amendment on redistricting after a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday. Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, told Capitol News ...

Senate Democratic President Don Harmon called off a constitutional amendment push to enshrine protections for majority-minority districts shortly after U.S. Supreme Court ruling.