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Supreme Court blocks North Dakota redistricting ruling that would gut key part of Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a lower-court ruling in a redistricting dispute in North Dakota that would gut a landmark federal civil rights law for millions of people. The justices indicated in an unsigned order that they are likely to take up a federal appeals court ruling that would eliminate the most common path people and civil rights groups use to sue under a key provision of the 60-year-old Voting Rights Act.
The Supreme Court is revisiting the Voting Rights Act, potentially altering safeguards against discriminatory voting maps. Justice Clarence Thomas, holding long-standing concerns that the VRA ...
Why a National Campaign for Voting Rights Is EssentialWhile a constitutional voting-rights amendment is unlikely, a national campaign could do much good, and Democrats are foolish if they ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law on August 6, 1965. The legislation served to protect and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments of the Constitution. It was ...
Within two years, Congress passed and President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, creating an extraordinary solution to Southern discrimination that consigned some states and ...
The past and present collide today, August 6, with the 56th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The landmark legislation, signed into law by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, served to ...
Nicole Austin-Hillery and Hans von Spakovsky talked about the origin of the Voting Rights Act, which President Johnson signed the act into law on August 6, 1965, and state voter identification ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 changed all that because courageous Americans like John Lewis put their lives on the line. Over the past decade, ...
On Tuesday, March 7 – the 41st anniversary of “Bloody Selma,” when voting-rights activists were attacked by Alabama police – the national ACLU launched the “Every Voice. Every Vote ...
Professors Julian Zelizer and Orville Vernon Burton talked about the factors that led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and challenges to voter's rights after the Supreme Court ...
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