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The conservative court has subjected the law to death by a thousand cuts over the years — and now is poised to kill it ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has set the date it will hear new arguments in a Louisiana case that could have ripple effects for ...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was nominating five new judges to serve on federal trial courts in Alabama and ...
Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston is standing firm for justice in the face of racist gerrymandering and the collapse of democracy in Texas, as testified by Rev. Angela Ravin-Anderson before the ...
Is the US Supreme Court about to disenfranchise black Americans and other racial minority voters? You would think so, given ...
For the past week, the Texas House has been at a standstill after Democrats secretly left the state to block a vote on a ...
The gerrymandering game of brinksmanship must end before it begins. Ensuring more voters’ votes don’t matter is poor governance and just plain undemocratic, whether its Democratic ...
U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee continued her series of town halls in North Carolina’s fourth congressional last week by holding an ...
Aug. 6 marked the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights legislation that made voting possible ...
By Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, Guest Columnist Sixty years ago, March 15, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, during a Joint Session of Congress said, “At times history and fate meet at a single time ...
Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, Black Americans are facing diluted advances and fighting some of the battles already won.
The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the ...