For decades, voters and organizations have successfully brought lawsuits against racially discriminatory voting rules under Section 2 of the civil rights law.

The 2-1 panel of the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that private plaintiffs cannot use an 1871 civil rights law as a means to enforce protections enshrined in the Voting ...

Meanwhile, there has been a mass exodus under the second Trump administration of career officials in the DOJ Civil Rights Division, which houses the department’s voting section, and the ...

Steele also led the Tallahassee Bus Boycott and marched in the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965 to demand voting rights for African Americans. Barnes called Steele a leader in the civil rights ...

WASHINGTON — In his drive to purge diversity efforts in the federal government and beyond, President Donald Trump has expressed outright hostility to civil rights protections. He ordered federal ...

Jared Polis signed the Colorado Voting Rights Act into ... Voters whose rights are violated under the act can take action along with civil rights groups. Bill sponsors include Sen.

BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal Voting Rights Act went even further Wednesday toward ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - A leader, educator and civil rights icon. The city of Lynchburg mourns the loss of a pillar in the community, Dr. Owen Cardwell. “Well, Dr. Caldwell has been a ...

Section 1983 stems from the Ku Klux Klan Act that Congress passed after the Civil War to protect Black people in the South from white supremacist violence, and voting rights advocates have ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive order that strips the federal government of the key tool it used to ...

It’s less of an oral history, but passed hand to hand. When I went to a mainstream school in fifth grade for a brief year, all of the hearing kids that were learning about civil rights and major ...

alleging that procedural errors in the vote disadvantaged female candidates. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice and a longtime ally of ...