The article covers ongoing election law cases across the U.S., including redistricting, voting rights, and ballot access. In New York, courts are debating election timing, vote dilution, and candidate ...

The justices will decide the future of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. When a federal court concluded Louisiana’s 2022 congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century, a change that would ...

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 ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In 1982, when the Voting Rights Act was up for reauthorization, the Reagan Justice Department had a goal: ...

The federal Voting Rights Act has become "a terrribly shredded shield" after attacks from federal courts and state legislatures, writes Gilda Daniels, which she says makes the need for a Maryland ...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a major voting rights case that could cement Republicans’ control of the House, with the court’s conservative majority signaling they could ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Louisiana’s attorney general is siding with the people who sued her, an unusual move that comes as part of a case that she hopes will reshape the Voting Rights Act, a decades-old law ...

We, the daughters of the suffragist movement, write in our opposition to the SAVE Act (S. 128), which was passed by the House and is currently before the Senate. Karen shares ancestry with Susan B.

This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. “In my ideal society, we would vote as households,” Doug Wilson, an extreme right-wing pastor said in a video ...