It's a common practice in the United States that disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic Americans who have been put behind bars: disenfranchisement in federal elections. However, newly ...
Democratic U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley and U.S. Senator Peter Welch on Wednesday unveiled a bill that if passed would ...
A federal appeals court issued a ruling Monday that could gut the Voting Rights Act ... belonged solely to the Attorney General of the United States.” The majority opinion from the three ...
On Monday, two conservative judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit voted to gut what is left of the Voting Rights Act. If the decision stands, it will eviscerate the ability of ...
Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. By Paige Masten A federal appeals court ...
Arkansas Board of Apportionment, held ... United States can bring a case like this one," he opined. Rudofsky's ruling upended decades of precedent permitting private individuals to address voting ...
“Quarreling over district lines begins like clockwork every ten years after the United States Census,” Stras ... to do with it under § 2 of the Voting Rights Act.” Stras and Gruender ...
A federal appeals court in Arkansas ruled on Monday that only the federal government — not private citizens or civil rights groups — could sue to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
But they often didn’t fare any better in prison ... rights and freedoms are being stripped away from us, it’s important we remind ourselves of the fury and determination of those who came ...
A new voting rights case bubbling up to the Supreme Court has the potential to transform how voting rights are litigated in the courts. On Monday, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled ...
On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act lacks a ... action exists under Section 2. Those assumptions were dicta at best ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is now ... required certain states to submit changes in those laws for preclearance by federal authorities. Section 2 is enforceable by litigation from the attorney ...
