The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday, Oct. 15, in Louisiana v. Callais, a challenge to the congressional map that Louisiana adopted in 2024 that may reshape the […] The post Supreme ...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have required 51 votes to pass ...
Last month, the U.S. celebrated the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the landmark Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law. The legislation promised “to enforce the 15th amendment” and ...
This month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the single most influential pieces of legislation in American history. The policy that finally, almost 200 years ...
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Supreme Court preview: What to know as the justices prepare to hear cases on voting rights, gun control and the limits of Trump’s power
The Supreme Court’s summer break wasn’t actually much of a break. The justices spent the past several months ruling on a barrage of emergency cases centering around a long list of President Trump’s ...
Sixty years ago this week, on Aug. 6, 1965, surrounded by such civil rights titans as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into ...
Democrats led the fight against civil rights…for over a century. But that narrative didn’t play well for them, so they pretended to be the Party of Lincoln instead. Decades of disinformation has done ...
*As hundreds of civil rights advocates complete plans for a series of events across the country to heighten the need for new and stronger voting rights laws, the U.S. House of Representatives is ...
While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.
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