A federal appeals court panel has ruled that private individuals and organizations cannot bring voting rights cases under a ...

The justices paused a lower court order pending a decision on whether the Supreme Court will take up the case, a major ...

An appeals court ruling that said private parties cannot file VRA lawsuits goes against settled law, attorneys said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday halted an appeals ruling that prevents private groups from challenging election maps under the Voting Rights Act in seven states. Neither the majority nor the three ...

Via Hansi Lo Wang comes this order finding no private right of action under section 208 of the VRA. The fate of this case will likely follow the fate of what the Supreme Court will do with the Section ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic Voting Rights Act that prohibits practices denying Blacks, Hispanics and ...

The Supreme Court is revisiting the Voting Rights Act, potentially altering safeguards against discriminatory voting maps. Justice Clarence Thomas, holding long-standing concerns that the VRA ...

The "For the People Act of 2021" is something Democrats say is urgently needed. The House late Wednesday night passed a sweeping ethics and voting rights package, first introduced in 2019. The ...

In research published in Social Science Quarterly, the study's investigator expected that migrants living in cities where local voting rights are extended to non-citizens would be more likely to ...

The case has drawn national interest because of a 2-1 ruling issued in May by a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that erased a path through the federal Voting Rights Act ...

A federal appeals court has upheld its decision against two Native American tribes challenging North Dakota's redistricting map. The tribes argued the map diluted their power, violating the ...