The Supreme Court appears ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that's helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century ...

The Supreme Court is reviewing a case centered on Section 2 of the voting rights act, which prohibits electoral practices that diminish the voting power of minority communities.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, giving its conservative majority a chance to deal another blow to the landmark federal law ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the ...

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 ...

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 was passed to stop racial discrimination in voting. The case, Louisiana v. Callais, questions if states can comply with the Voting Rights Act without violating constitutional ...

The Justice Department is dispatching federal monitors to polling locations in New Jersey and California, two Democratic states with crucial off-year elections on Tuesday.