A federal appeals court on Wednesday shut down the ability of private individuals to bring Voting Rights Act lawsuits ...

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A three-judge panel permanently blocked Alabama from using a state-drawn map that they said flouted their directive to draw a ...

The Houston school district uses an at-large voting system to elect its seven trustees, instead of a system in which board ...

A new Colorado voting law carves out special voting rights protections for jail inmates, as well as for gender identity. Fred ...

Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Alabama, and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write ...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed the Colorado Voting Rights Act into law Monday, establishing various protections contained ...

A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal ...

The lower court committed “legal error” in its ruling finding no violation of the Voting Rights Act, Judge Adalberto Jordan ...

This victory comes after recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have undermined voting rights laws. “If any case was going to ...

After a challenge by Republican officials, a federal appeals panel struck down a key way of enforcing the Voting Rights Act's ...