Opinion: Voting Rights Act never mandated racial districts

Ever since the recent decision of the Supreme Court limiting the use of race in drawing congressional districts, there has ...
PolitiFact

Was the Voting Rights Act created because of Democrat gerrymandering? Fact-checking Byron Donalds

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...
SCOTUSblog

In major Voting Rights Act case, Supreme Court strikes down redistricting map challenged as racially discriminatory

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Updated on April 29 at 9:58 p.m. The Supreme Court on Wednesday, in the case of Louisiana v. Callais, struck down a Louisiana ...
CNN

Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s historic Voting Rights Act opinion and what’s next for the midterms

The Supreme Court on Wednesday kicked yet another leg out from under the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 civil rights law that Chief Justice John Roberts’ court has repeatedly ...
CounterPunchOpinion

On the Untimely Death of the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais, invalidating a congressional map that included a second majority ...

Amid rising fears of rolling back voter rights, Black lawmakers announce new Voting Rights Act for California

The California Voting Rights Act, announced in a press conference on May 13, would strengthen protections for voters and ...
South Florida Times

NAACP calling for Black athletes to boycott colleges in South after blow to 1965 Voting Rights Act

The NAACP is encouraging Black student-athletes to boycott universities and colleges in the south in the wake of the ...