Monte Frank underscores the importance of reforms to shield democracy as the Supreme Court reviews Voting Rights Act.

A panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down one of the key remaining ways of enforcing the federal Voting Rights Act in seven mainly Midwestern states. For decades, private ...

Joe Biden's 2020 campaign promised to improve racial justice and protect voting rights. But Biden's presidency failed to achieve his promise to update the Voting Rights Act. Biden promised to pass the ...

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court of the United States has the opportunity to stop the separation, division, and segregation that federal courts are sanctioning in redistricting cases ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting Rights ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from tradition, then-President Lyndon Johnson went to Capitol Hill to sign the bill ...

Since the 2020 Presidential election, there has been extensive discussion surrounding the security of American elections. This discussion took on a partisan divide, and even culminated in the belief ...

Barriers that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed to eliminate have reappeared in modern forms as the country marks its 60th anniversary. The big picture: A backlash to the 2020 racial reckoning has ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting Rights ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting Rights ...

Struggles with mail access, internet and language barriers could be amplified. As many election officials across the country move to bolster vote by mail efforts in their states amid the ongoing ...