Dana Bash breaks down Graham Platner's 11-minute video dropping out of Maine's Senate race and blasting party leaders ...

In a decision that voting rights advocates are calling a serious setback for minority representation, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday significantly weakened a key provision of the landmark Voting ...

Footage from key moments in the history of the Voting Rights Act.Credit... Supported by By Audra D. S. Burch Emily Cochrane and Jamie Leventhal The Voting Rights Act, among the most consequential ...

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has often been called the crown jewel of the U.S. civil rights movement. But under a U.S. Supreme Court led for two decades by ...

In a long-awaited — and among voting-rights advocates, much-dreaded — decision handed down on Wednesday, the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court all but gutted the Voting Rights Act of ...

Last week, in a six-to-three ruling along ideological lines, the Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That’s the landmark Civil Rights era law designed to prevent racial ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the landmark 1965 law that was a crowning achievement of the civil rights ...

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The newest decision, which follows a series of rulings led by Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito restricting the reach of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, will reverberate deeper. Taken as a whole, the ...

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to fortify the 15th Amendment, which gave Black men the right to vote, and end longstanding discriminatory practices that prevented them from voting. These ...

FILE - President Lyndon Johnson, at podium, speaks in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, before to signing the Voting Rights Act, Aug. 6, 1965. WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check ...