It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding the Civil War and Reconstruction. The American constitutional order went through more changes during those two decades than in ...

The SAVE Act will erect additional barriers to people exercising the right to vote, the League of Women Voters’ Judith E.

The SAVE Act furthers a partisan lie that voter fraud is threatening our democracy. The John R. Lewis Voting Rights ...

On a mostly party-line basis, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives advanced the SAVE Act, a bill that would […] ...

From literacy tests and poll taxes to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, every gain in voting rights has been met ...

Weeks earlier, the Justice Department withdrew a request to take part in Supreme Court oral arguments for a Louisiana congressional redistricting case that some legal experts fear could further weaken ...

Mere weeks after the Edmund Pettus march, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was presented to Congress on March 17, 1965. President Johnson signed the bill into law on August 6, 1965. Since 1965, voting ...

A lawsuit challenging Houston County's voting system for diluting Black voters' power will proceed, but there are some ...

The U.S. House has passed a bill that voting rights groups have repeatedly warned would make it ... House on Thursday voted ...

including enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), which has protected Americans’ right to vote since the civil rights era. Yet, in this time of uncertainty and national instability ...

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 ...