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only to be slapped down by the Supreme Court two years ago when a narrow court majority ruled that the state had illegally diluted the Black vote in violation of the Voting Rights Act. There is ...
Weeks earlier, the Justice Department withdrew a request to take part in Monday’s Supreme Court oral arguments ... further weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. In one of the dropped ...
a federal appeals court ruling could curb enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, Donald… Politics Nov 20 Federal court deals blow to Voting Rights Act, barring lawsuits from private parties A ...
The Supreme Court has long held that felony-disenfranchisement ... equal-sovereignty doctrine out of thin air to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in 2013. Just last year, the court effectively ...
Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby seeks Supreme Court intervention to restore voting rights suspended over her social media posts ...
The SAVE Act's in-person documentary voter registration requirement will make it harder for married women, and many other groups, to register to vote.
Voting rights groups in Ohio may soon be fighting a two-front war on voter suppression in Congress and in the Statehouse.
In Washington state, voting rights advocates like me watched nearly all democracy-related bills stall in our Legislature this year.
Wisconsin voters elected Susan Crawford to the state supreme court, maintaining the court’s 4-3 liberal majority. The race ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is under attack ... bill is unconstitutional for home-rule municipalities. The state Supreme Court has affirmed, over the course of 113 years, that municipal ...
At 105, Ruth Bradley McNeely-Wells cast her absentee ballot in Milwaukee's spring Supreme Court election ... including the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. On Tuesday, the 105-year ...
This is a fascinating challenge to Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law on the grounds that it violates the fundamental conditions placed on its 1870 re-admission to the Union. The Court’s docket ...