The Supreme Court rule 6-3 in a decision that has implications for the scope of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
The law granting special powers to armed forces was upheld, but courts emphasized that such powers are not absolute.
NAACP decries 6-3 decision that ruled Louisiana must redraw its congressional map, a landmark case that guts major section of Voting Rights Act ...
The court’s conservative majority said they had upheld the landmark law, as liberal justices accused them of gutting it. In ...
The racially and politically charged case – one of the biggest the court will decide this term − grew from a long battle over ...
The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday kicked yet another leg out from under the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 civil rights ...
Jodi Kantor, an investigative reporter at The New York Times, joins The Lead.
Because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling ...
The Supreme Court has weakened a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and ...
The conservative majority at the US Supreme Court has issued a ruling in a gerrymandering case that one liberal justice ...