President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office has sparked concerns he is rolling back decades of civil rights protections ...

The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making ...

Also emerging: a fierce response, a defense of voting rights that won an important early victory. How this fight unfolds will ...

To make the constitutional promises a reality, we needed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 24th Amendment barring poll taxes, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 ...

Ten other states including Tennessee require additional government action — Virginia ‘s governor, for example, must personally intervene to restore voting rights. For more Tennessee news ...

Representative Harriet Hageman has once again voted to negatively impact thousands of people in her state, safe in the knowledge that she herself will not be affected. The Safeguard American Voter ...

Ten other states including Tennessee require additional government action — Virginia ’s governor, for example, must personally intervene to restore voting rights.

In Maine and Vermont, people with felonies keep their voting rights in prison, the NCSL says. Ten other states including Tennessee require additional government action — Virginia ’s governor, for ...

Both Republican and Democratic-led states have eased the voting rights restoration process in recent years. But some states have added complexities, such as Tennessee's 2023 change. In Florida ...

Most people in jail are detained pretrial or serving time for a misdemeanor—circumstances that do not result in the loss of voting rights. As of January 2025 ... for voter registration or ballot ...