A group of Baton Rouge judges wants a federal court to reopen a 1986 voting rights case, arguing a new 19th JDC election map ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris signaled Thursday that she is taking a break from political office for the time being, ...

The effort comes at the direction of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who would like to hold a statewide special election on Nov. 4 so that ...

President Donald Trump has ordered his Commerce Department to change the U.S. Census in a move critics fear could ...

While the Voting Rights Act may be heading to its demise as a functional piece of legislation, it can still stand as a symbol ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

Civil rights activists fought for the Voting Rights Acts 60 years ago. Some worry the law's protections are now at risk.

As a Texas senator summoned the F.B.I. to round up Democrats, the redistricting war that began in Texas was spreading, with ...

The US Supreme Court indicated it will consider outlawing the use of race in drawing voting maps, setting up a blockbuster ...

The disappointment had a bitter epilogue. A Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court found in February of 2022 that ...

More than 23,500 Ann Arbor voters cast ballots to decide the fate of Proposals A and B for a new downtown library in the ...

Texas Republicans’ push to redraw congressional maps to secure five more GOP seats in the U.S. House has kicked off a ...