A potential Supreme Court rollback threatens the Voting Rights Act of 1965, undermining the sacrifices made to secure the ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the now-infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on ...
The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority appeared open to weakening the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a way ...
FILE - Luci Baines Johnson looks at the desk May 16, 2023, on display at the LBJ Presidential Library, that President Lyndon B. Johnson sat at in the President's Room at the U.S. Capitol to sign the ...
The Supreme Court is reviewing a case centered on Section 2 of the voting rights act, which prohibits electoral practices ...
After an impassioned set of arguments Wednesday over the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the question is whether Justice Brett Kavanaugh is willing to completely dismantle a law intended to ensure equal ...
Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a law aimed at ending discrimination and violence against Black Americans, Latinos and ...
Two years ago, the US Supreme Court surprised observers and even some inside the court when it narrowly preserved the 1965 Voting Rights Act and race-based remedies intended to counteract historic ...