Sixty-one years after the Voting Rights Act, one expert explains why Black voters face renewed attacks on access, representation and the power of the ballot.

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to fortify the 15th Amendment, which gave Black men the right to vote, and end longstanding discriminatory practices that prevented them from voting. These ...

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais, invalidating a congressional map that included a second majority-Black district in the state, severely weakened a key provision of the ...

The newest decision, which follows a series of rulings led by Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito restricting the reach of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, will reverberate deeper. Taken as a whole, the ...

For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and ...

Divided along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2026, issued a ruling that severely weakens a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision, known as Section ...

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The majority said the law was a victim of its own success and no longer needed. Dissenters responded that Congress should make the call. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and ...