A federal appeals court on Wednesday shut down the ability of private individuals to bring Voting Rights Act lawsuits ...

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A new Colorado voting law carves out special voting rights protections for jail inmates, as well as for gender identity. Fred ...

A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal ...

The Houston school district uses an at-large voting system to elect its seven trustees, instead of a system in which board ...

After a challenge by Republican officials in North Dakota, a federal appeals panel struck down a key way of enforcing the ...

The lower court committed “legal error” in its ruling finding no violation of the Voting Rights Act, Judge Adalberto Jordan ...

A three-judge panel permanently blocked Alabama from using a state-drawn map that they said flouted their directive to draw a ...

After a challenge by Republican officials, a federal appeals panel struck down a key way of enforcing the Voting Rights Act's ...

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has won a victory at the Supreme Court against Alabama's discriminatory redistricting practices ...

Private citizens in seven states no longer have a legal path to sue under a key section of the Voting Rights Act, under a ...