Callais is the culmination of decades of its rulings limiting the Voting Rights Act. No one, including the court’s majority, ...

The Voting Rights Act was not racial favoritism. It was a protection created in response to a long and documented history of ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday appeared poised to significantly weaken a key Voting Rights Act provision that prohibits states from diluting the power of minority voters — a ...

The Court, in a ruling powered by conservative members, blocked an electoral map that had given Louisiana a second Black-majority congressional district.

Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy.

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court had to resolve an apparent tension between the 14th Amendment and the Voting ...

In its 6–3 decision, the court gutted the legislation that ended apartheid in this country—and once again gave white people the ability to suppress Black political power. Demonstrators outside the US ...

As the Voting Rights Act faces new threats, old tools of disenfranchisement are being repackaged for a new era.

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...

From a contentious Senate race to five constitutional amendments, here is what you need to know about the Saturday elections.