A three-judge panel permanently blocked Alabama from using a state-drawn map that they said flouted their directive to draw a ...

The Houston school district uses an at-large voting system to elect its seven trustees, instead of a system in which board ...

A federal appeals court foreclosed on Wednesday one of the main remaining means by which civil rights activists could enforce ...

On Wednesday, the Voting Rights Act suffered the second shot in a brutal new one-two punch, and some worry it could lead to a knockout blow at the Supreme Court.

This victory comes after recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have undermined voting rights laws. “If any case was going to ...

The lower court committed “legal error” in its ruling finding no violation of the Voting Rights Act, Judge Adalberto Jordan ...

Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Alabama, and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write ...

After a challenge by Republican officials, a federal appeals panel struck down a key way of enforcing the Voting Rights Act's ...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed the Colorado Voting Rights Act into law Monday, establishing various protections contained ...

A new Colorado voting law carves out special voting rights protections for jail inmates, as well as for gender identity. Fred ...

Coloradans concerned about discrimination at the ballot box may be excited about the passing of a bill a local nonprofit ...