The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark law enacted to enforce voting protections enshrined in the US Constitution and eliminate longstanding obstacles to voter participation. Now, the Supreme ...

The Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and other groups supported the ...

The future of Black political representation is now at the mercy of the high court. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of the most important laws of our lifetime. The landmark civil rights law ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1965, Congress passed landmark civil rights legislation to stop racial discrimination in voting; part of the law could be in ...

The judge ordered the plaintiff’s legal team to justify why they shouldn’t face sanctions and attorney fees by Feb. 5.

Kentucky has barred more than 158,000 of its residents from voting. Most have previous felony convictions and despite a 2019 ...

Labor and voting rights groups are looking to prevent the Trump administration from accessing Illinois' voter data.

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices and became one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement, some political observers assert that ...

Today in a historic ruling, a federal judge found that Virginia’s Constitution broke federal law by stripping the voting rights of every Virginian with a felony conviction, paving the way for ...

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Democratic leaders and voting rights advocates in Vermont came together to announce a new ...

Mississippi lawmakers are proposing a state-level voting rights act as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case that could ...

Since the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, African Americans have been allowed to vote in elections for the past 60 years. After an oral argument in the Supreme Court that’s disputing a ...