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The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...
That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The ...
While the Voting Rights Act may be heading to its demise as a functional piece of legislation, it can still stand as a symbol ...
A major case now before the U.S. Supreme Court has some fearing that this year's anniversary of the Voting Rights Act may be ...
A major case now before the U.S. Supreme Court has some fearing that this year's anniversary of the Voting Rights Act may be ...
Like democracy, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 didn’t come with a lifetime warranty. The survival of both depends on our vigilance in protecting the vote, democracy’s most important lifeline.
The Voting Rights Act is quite likely dead given previous Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts, opines ...
On Aug. 6, 2025, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, while recognizing we must not only preserve the ...
Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark legislation becoming law. Those at the epicenter of the fight for voting ...
The Supreme Court signaled its appetite to pull more teeth from the Voting Rights Act, rendering it all but biteless.
Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act being signed into law. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ...
March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A ...