While the 1965 law was adopted in response to discriminatory practices in southern states, it has affected states and localities nationwide.

These are the 19 Congressional Districts Demcrates could lose depeing on the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais.

The Supreme Court takes up a racially and politically charged case from Louisiana testing a landmark civil rights law aimed at preventing voting discrimination.

A Voting Rights Act provision is at risk and a homecoming at a gay rodeo: Morning Rundown The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that could gut a key provision in the Voting Rights Act. Concern over lethal strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats grows in Congress. And celebrating a half-century of gay rodeo.

Yesterday: The Republican leaders of North Carolina's legislature announced they will redraw congressional maps in an attempt to create a new Republican district. Background: Trump kicked off a wave of unusual mid-decade redistricting when he asked Texas to create a new congressional map with five more Republican House seats.

I have written about the dangers of the Court killing off or significantly weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, via the surprise reargument in the Louisiana v. Callais case. If the Court rules Section 2 unconstitutional because it