voting rights act

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.

The Supreme Court has struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district in a decision that could open the door for Republican-led states to eliminate Black and Latino electoral districts that tend to favor Democrats.

The law is once again on the chopping block — this time on the question of how state legislatures may draw congressional district lines when the state's voters are racially polarized.

Newly released documents confirm the Trump administration's push for a citizenship question was part of a bid to alter the census numbers used to divide up seats in Congress and the Electoral College.

The Supreme Court has been dismantling key provisions of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The justices have taken another case on the issue next term.

The push to alter the filibuster and sidestep a Republican blockade of two voting rights bills was doomed by Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

The Freedom to Vote Act was a unified Democratic effort led in part by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who was trying to get Republican support. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell vocally opposed it.

Efforts to pass other federal voting rights legislation have stalled in the closely divided Senate, as Democrats try to counter voting restrictions enacted in Republican-led states.

Voting rights advocates in West Palm Beach attended a voting rally on the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

People gathered in Washington, D.C., and also in other cities, to demand lawmakers protect voting rights after a slew of suppressive legislation in Republican-led states.

More than 50 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, activists are marching to fight federal legislation that they say will make it harder to vote.

Texas House Democrats have left the state in a second attempt to block controversial Republican legislation that critics have slammed as voter suppression.