Kansas is one of 16 states that have enacted restrictive voting laws this year, falling just short of records set in 2021, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a lower-court ruling in a redistricting dispute in North Dakota that would gut a landmark federal civil rights law for millions of people. The ...

The Supreme Court is reviewing a case centered on Section 2 of the voting rights act, which prohibits electoral practices that diminish the voting power of minority communities.

Voting rights activists march outside of the Supreme Court on Aug. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court appeared likely to further erode the Voting Rights Act on ...

Barriers that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed to eliminate have reappeared in modern forms as the country marks its 60th anniversary. The big picture: A backlash to the 2020 racial reckoning has ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday to restore and expand protections enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, their latest long-shot attempt to revive the landmark law ...

Gutting the civil rights law has been a long game, and its opponents have long found a champion in Chief Justice John Roberts.

In a speech before he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the landmark civil rights law, “Today we strike away the last major shackle…the Negro story and ...