A US appellate court decision Monday undercutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 rejects decades of precedent ... Section 2 has helped ensure that states draw legislative and congressional ...

The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act was introduced last week by more than 200 House Democrats ahead of the anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, voting rights marchers walked ...

The judges said that the map drawn by the Alabama Legislature in 2023 violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, just like the ... to ignore" their order to draw a second district where Black voters ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of the most crucial civil ... to discriminate against minority voters with impunity in drawing election districts for Congress, state legislatures and local ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been slowly whittled away over ... which ruled 5-4 that it was too close to the election to draw a new map. A federal judge in Georgia wrote in another case ...

That is why the Voting Rights Act of 1965 continues to hold such an important role in securing and maintaining basic rights for our democracy.

The bill named for civil rights activist and former Democratic Congress member John Lewis would bring back major pieces of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that courts have struck down over decades ...

Court Rules Alabama Violated Voting Rights Act in Drawing Congressional Lines MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally diluted the voting strength of ...