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Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to erase a critical chapter of the past and to weaken the Voting Rights Act.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped ...

It is key to the longtime objectives supported by and benefiting the billionaires who funded the court-capture machine.

The government shutdown is now the third-longest funding lapse in modern history, and the Senate won't meet until Monday.

Not since the pro-slavery court before the Civil War has a Supreme Court been as ill-suited as the Roberts court that opens a ...

In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the conservative majority signaled it might prohibit using race as a factor in creating election districts. Resulting redistricting could let states cement ...

On Friday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of its birthright citizenship ...

The Supreme Court hears a Louisiana redistricting case that could reshape the Voting Rights Act and impact congressional maps ...