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Byline: Justin Jouvenal The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a complex dispute over how Louisiana draws congressional maps that could affect the power of Black voters in the [...]

Byline: Patrick Marley, Maegan Vazquez A federal appeals court on Thursday made it harder for Black and Hispanic voters to form coalitions to elect the candidates they prefer in three [...]

Byline: Silvia Foster-Frau DODGE CITY, Kan. - For the past 13 years, Hector Almendarez has picked up his hard hat every workday and driven down Wyatt Earp Avenue - passing [...]

Byline: Silvia Foster-Frau DODGE CITY, Kan. - For the past 13 years, Hector Almendarez has picked up his hard hat every workday and driven down Wyatt Earp Avenue - passing [...]

Byline: Patrick Marley NAPOLEONVILLE, La. - When Dorothy Nairne missed an election, her mother scolded her so forcefully that it made her cry. As a Black woman who grew up [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused Alabama's attempt to hold 2024 elections under a new congressional map judged to be an unlawful attempt to diminish [...]

Byline: Paul Kane A series of Supreme Court rulings gave Democrats a needed jolt to shore up their ranks in the South heading into the pivotal 2024 election. But those [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow The Supreme Court's voting-rights decision Thursday - that Alabama's Republican-led legislature drew congressional districts that unlawfully diluted the political power of Black voters [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court on Thursday said the Alabama legislature should have created a second congressional district in which Black voters had a chance of [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's liberal justices combined Tuesday for an aggressive and unified defense against Alabama's efforts to limit creation of voting districts in which minorities [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips As conservatives on the Supreme Court plan to take on affirmative action and gay rights this fall, the court will also hear two gerrymandering-related cases that could [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court on Monday restored an Alabama congressional map that creates only one district favorable to a Black candidate, and put on hold [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday put on hold a lower court's order that Alabama must create a second congressional district favorable to Black voters, over [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler 'The heirs of Jim Crow are weakening the foundations of our democracy. Voting rights are too important.' - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in a tweet, [...]

Byline: Patricia Sullivan America is in the midst of a racial reckoning comparable to the 1960s. New efforts to overcome voting restrictions percolate in Congress, as does a push to [...]

Byline: Courtland Milloy When Jean Evansmore was growing up in West Virginia coal country, her grandfather did two things that would have a profound effect on her life. He showed [...]

Byline: Eugene Scott House Democrats introduced a voting rights bill Tuesday on the site where the late congressman John Lewis, D-Ga., was brutally assaulted in 1965 as he and others [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin As Republicans change state laws to facilitate voter suppression and attempt to rig elections, the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division offered a timely reminder [...]

Byline: Ellie Silverman Twenty-six people were arrested Friday outside Reagan National Airport after a group of voting-rights organizers, college students and faith leaders rallied with a message for the Senate: [...]

Byline: Vanessa Williams The last time Congress voted to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act in 2006, Helen Butler got the chance to attend the bill-signing ceremony by President George W. [...]

Byline: Steve Vladeck At the tail end of what law professors often refer to as the constitutional Revolution of 1937, the Supreme Court devoted a long footnote to identifying the [...]

Byline: Dan Balz The 1965 Voting Rights Act has long stood as a symbol of the progress America has made in the struggle for civil rights and as a guardian [...]

Byline: Sean Morales-Doyle The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a severe blow to a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement and the nation's best defense against racially discriminatory voting [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld two Arizona voting restrictions that a lower court had said discriminated against minority voters, a ruling that suggests that [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld two Arizona voting restrictions that a lower court had said discriminated against minority voters. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld two Arizona voting restrictions that a lower court had said discriminated against minority voters. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the [...]

Byline: Amy Gardner and Sean Sullivan WASHINGTON - Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged Friday to double the size of the Justice Department's voting rights enforcement staff to vigorously combat efforts [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler 'What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It's sick. It's sick . . . deciding that you're going to end voting at 5 [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent For Print Use Only. With Republicans launching voter-suppression efforts across the country, one emerging argument has been that such GOP efforts don't actually work. If anything, goes [...]

Byline: Seung Min Kim WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden issued a full-throated attack Friday 0n a new Georgia law that dramatically constrains voting access in the Peach State, calling it [...]

Byline: Amy Gardner and Amy B Wang WASHINGTON - Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law a sweeping voting measure that proponents said is necessary to shore up [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin For Print Use Only. President Joe Biden sent a clear message on Sunday about the need to secure voting rights for all Americans. 'The Voting Rights Act [...]

Byline: Jonathan Capehart For Print Use Only. On Sunday, March 7, 1965 - exactly 56 years ago - the Rev. Hosea Williams and 25-year-old John Lewis walked side-by-side as they [...]

For Print Use Only. The following editorial appears in The Washington Post: After the Supreme Court gutted a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in 2013, states with [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to make it more difficult to challenge widely used voting laws that in practice might be more of [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent For Print Use Only. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard cases that could end up delivering a serious blow to voting rights. The questioning from the conservative [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to make it more difficult to challenge widely used voting laws that in practice might be more of [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - With one contentious election behind it, the Supreme Court this week will consider the rules for the next, and how federal law protects minority voters [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin For Print Use Only. H.R. 1, the For the People Act, attempts to address a myriad of weaknesses in our voting system. The bill includes, according to [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday added a major voting rights case to its docket and will review whether Arizona laws common in other states discriminate [...]

Byline: Ari Berman In 2013, the Supreme Court's five-member conservative majority gutted the Voting Rights Act by ruling that states with a long history of racial discrimination in their conduct [...]

Byline: Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey and Matt Zapotosky WASHINGTON - Nearly 30 years ago, a Republican Party program that dispatched off-duty police officers to patrol polling places in heavily [...]

Byline: Joe Davidson As mourners honor the courage that earned Rep. John Lewis his reputation as the conscience of Congress, there is another characteristic that stands out for those who [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman One of the characteristic features of Donald Trump's presidency is how he has taken the institutions and practices that used to be considered outside partisanship and above [...]

Byline: DeNeen L. Brown James Reeb, a white Unitarian minister in Boston, grew outraged as he watched television footage of the brutal 'Bloody Sunday' attack. Police on horseback, swinging billy [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour Documents discovered in the files of a deceased Republican redistricting strategist contain further information connecting him to the Trump administration's quest to add a citizenship question to [...]

Byline: Eugene Scott Over the past few months, several states have moved to severely limit access to abortion, prompting a court fight that could make its way to the Supreme [...]

Byline: Joe Davidson WASHINGTON - Nearly two dozen Democrats are seeking votes for president. Apparently, there's no such thing as too many. But some officials think there are too many [...]