Garcia said Republicans were motivated not just by political expediency, but by a broader desire to weaken the Voting Rights Act (VRA), which prohibits electoral changes that discriminate against ...

Civil rights activists fought for the Voting Rights Acts 60 years ago. Some worry the law's protections are now at risk.

The Supreme Court has been whittling away the Voting Rights Act's legal protections for years. Now it's poised to reconsider ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to an immediate wave of Black voter participation. 60 years later, that participation is ...

President Donald Trump asked Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to call the state legislature in for a special session where they could approve new congressional maps that would redraw district lines ...