The Voting Rights Act of 1965 tackled voter suppression in the United States. While it significantly increased the registration of Black voters, it was not without controversy. Federal prosecutors ...

For decades, voters and organizations have successfully brought lawsuits against racially discriminatory voting rules under ...

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has issued a ruling that limits who can sue under the Voting Rights Act, a decision that ... enforcement of the landmark 1965 law. A 2-1 ruling Monday ...

Four and a half months later, the lanky Texan would return to the U.S. Capitol to sign the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965, whose 50th anniversary is being celebrated this week. The Voting ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday shut down the ability of private individuals to bring Voting Rights Act lawsuits ...

they can come out of coverage,” according to a bill summary. After passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the US Department of Justice rejected more than 1,000 proposed changes to voting laws ...

Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore and strengthen the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 to its full power after the Supreme Court eviscerated its core protections a decade ago.

The platform also says, “We urge that the Voting Rights Act of 1965, codified 1402 and updated in 1973, be repealed and not reauthorized.” The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark civil ...

Here was the author of a 2013 decision that had eviscerated a crucial safeguard of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a jurist who had repeatedly criticized specific efforts to protect Black and Latino ...

TOTENBERG: University of Iowa election law expert Derek Mueller agrees, noting that a contrary ruling would have gutted the last remaining pillar of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act ...