U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco blocked the state from using the current map in the 2026 elections and said a new map must ...

Hours after Texas lawmakers approved a new gerrymandered congressional map Saturday morning, Texans asked a court to block it. The plaintiffs*, a group of Black and Latino Texans, filed an amended ...

This month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the single most influential pieces of ...

WASHINGTON - The 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday was overshadowed by a risk the Supreme Court is close to eliminating key portions of the landmark law intended to protect the ...

On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights activists departed from Selma headed toward Montgomery, Alabama, along US Route 80. The march, part of a larger voting rights movement taking place across ...

The conservative court has subjected the law to death by a thousand cuts over the years — and now is poised to kill it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday to restore and expand protections enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, their latest long-shot attempt to revive the landmark law ...

A legal challenge has been filed against Texas's newly enacted congressional map, which plaintiffs claim is an ...

As far as filibuster rules in the Texas Senate, There’s no eating or drinking in the Senate chamber. The Senate member has to ...

KBTX spoke with former House Representative of District 14, John Raney, who was present during the 2021 special session break. After quorum was reached in 2021, Raney was a part of the group that ...

Roughly a dozen Texas Democrats who fled their state to come to Washington met Thursday in a Capitol Hill basement with the Senate Democrat who holds the key vote in Congress on voting rights ...

A federal court ruled Friday that Alabama’s current state Senate district map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of ...