On April 29, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, in Louisiana v. Callais. In its decision, the Court made null the ...

In truth, Callais did something far more extreme: it rewrote the VRA, and in doing so, made vote-dilution claims impossible.

The Voting Rights Act was not racial favoritism. It was a protection created in response to a long and documented history of ...

As the Voting Rights Act faces new threats, old tools of disenfranchisement are being repackaged for a new era.

Divided along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2006, issued a ruling that severely weakens a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision, known as Section ...

Latest ruling is culmination of Justices Roberts and Alito’s campaign to slowly but surely strangle efforts to protect democratic rights of Black and other minority Americans ...

The measure would let Americans bring federal lawsuits over alleged constitutional voting rights violations by federal officials.

Political bodies across the United States are left to consider the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Louisiana v. Callais voting rights decision.

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court had to resolve an apparent tension between the 14th Amendment and the Voting ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday appeared poised to significantly weaken a key Voting Rights Act provision that prohibits states from diluting the power of minority voters — a ...