In June 2021, two-time school board candidate Virginia Elizondo filed a lawsuit alleging that Spring Branch ISD was violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now, more than four years later, the ruling ...

The Supreme Court may soon eliminate a crucial part of a landmark civil rights law enacted 60 years ago to prevent racial discrimination in voting. The court debated for 2½ hours on Oct. 15 about ...

The Supreme Court, urged on by well-funded far-right ideologues like Stephen Miller, is set to curtail important provisions of the Voting Rights Act, opening the door to aggressive, racially based ...

Since the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, African Americans have been allowed to vote in elections for the past 60 years. After an oral argument in the Supreme Court that’s disputing a ...

The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, threatening the equal representation of Black voters, and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ...

The Voting Rights Act was passed to stop racial discrimination in voting. The case, Louisiana v. Callais, questions if states can comply with the Voting Rights Act without violating constitutional ...

This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais about the last remaining section of the Voting Rights Act, a civil-rights law designed to ensure that states could not get in ...

Texas’ latest redistricting push has renewed debate over the Voting Rights Act after the Department of Justice quietly dropped a related lawsuit in March 2025. The Department of Justice sued Texas in ...

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