Carroll and fellow analyst Alton Dillard recently told Colorado Matters Host Chandra Thomas Whitfield in a panel discussion ...

As the Supreme Court revisits the Voting Rights Act, we remember that the journey to that decision was long and hard. Black Americans labored tirelessly for civil rights, including the right to vote—a ...

Every 10 years, states undergo the process of redrawing state legislative and federal congressional district boundaries. The process is called redistricting. In 2021, the Louisiana state legislature ...

The late American civil rights activist and advocate of nonviolent resistance, Dr Martin Luther King Jr., remains one of the ...

This is an opinion column. The future of the Voting Rights Act is again in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. Because the court still doesn’t allow cameras, news media have struggled for what we in ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please ...

Section two of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil-rights law enacted in 1965, prohibits any state election rule that “results in a denial or abridgement” of a citizen’s right to vote because of ...

The Supreme Court appears poised to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act, said Ed Kilgore in New York, and that ruling could shatter the partisan balance in the House for years to come. During oral ...

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most consequential victories in American history. Nearly a century after the 15th Amendment promised Black ...

Louisiana's Legislature has delayed spring primary elections by about one month. The postponement is in anticipation of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the state's congressional map. Republicans hope ...

The way Republicans tell it, the special session that begins Thursday afternoon is not complicated and, ideally, it won’t last very long. “Everybody wants to just get in and get out,” said Sen. Caleb ...

A Supreme Court ruling against the Voting Rights Act could allow Republicans to redraw districts and solidify control of the House From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get ...