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

The Supreme Court recently delivered in Callais v. Louisiana a ruling that demolished the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, widely characterized as the crown jewel of the civil rights movement ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Wednesday slammed the Supreme Court’s ruling that Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district was unconstitutional, which limited the scope ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the civil rights movement. By Sonia A. Rao The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court's recent decision to dismantle key protections threatens to reverse decades of progress, demanding we ...