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

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

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

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

Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Alabama, and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write ...

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

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed the Colorado Voting Rights Act into law Monday, establishing various protections contained ...

This victory comes after recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have undermined voting rights laws. “If any case was going to ...

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

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