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

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

When he was called to testify, Chandler gave a folksy shrug—retired, didn’t need to be there, could be out fishing. Turning ...

The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he plans to put new district lines in front of voters in a special election on Nov. 4, but only ...

The walkout was a sharp escalation in the clash over a redistricting effort. Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to remove the ...