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Justice Brett Kavanaugh granted a stay, but fellow conservatives Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would have denied the application ...
It’s the latest ruling from the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, saying only the government can bring lawsuits ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...