WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown is delaying another major economic report, leaving policymakers at the Federal Reserve with a cloudier picture even as the economy enters a challenging phase ...

The last functioning part of the Voting Rights Act — the landmark civil rights law that for six decades has helped guard ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices appeared likely to strip Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of all power to protect ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued that the Voting Rights Act must sunset after an undetermined amount of time. Justice Amy Coney ...

Members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared open Wednesday to raising the bar for successfully challenging ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act that could strip ...

Congress specifically forebore establishing a right for members of a protected class to be elected in numbers ‘equal to their ...

During 2 1/2 hours of arguments, the court’s six conservative justices seemed inclined to effectively strike down a Black ...

Justices heard arguments over a Louisiana case involving a sprawling, gerrymandered district drawn to give black voters a ...

The Supreme Court signaled on Wednesday that the days of creating congressional districts based on race may be numbered.

NAACP Legal Defense Fund President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson, who defended the VRA, pushed back on this claim, noting ...

Conservative Supreme Court justices seemed inclined Wednesday to restrict the use of race-based redistricting when drawing ...