The Houston school district, which has an at-large voting system for school board members, was ordered to create a new system ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 stipulates that a violation would ... including the three Gingles conditions and senate factors two, five and seven, to show that, based on the totality of the ...

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

Arguments were presented Tuesday to a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Nairne v ... s decision. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits voting ...

First , there was “bloody Sunday” and “turnaround Tuesday,” then there was a rally in Boston in 1965 over housing ...

Darryl Walker fills out his ballot while voting on Super Tuesday in Denver, March 5, 2024 ... in civil rights cases, including enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), which has ...

the day the Supreme Court ruled 5–4 to nullify a key part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act known as “Section 5.” Section 5 was a promise from the federal government that it would keep ...