The Supreme Court’s ruling that a Black-majority voting district in Louisiana is unconstitutional adds to a long and dismal history of government attempts to limit the power of minority voters.
April 30, 2026
The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect thousands of Black and Hispanic representatives at all levels of government
April 30, 2026
John Roberts’ effort to gut the Voting Rights Act is complete
April 30, 2026
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry told Republican House candidates on Wednesday that he planned to suspend next month’s primary elections to allow state lawmakers to pass a new
April 30, 2026
Black members of Congress are bracing for a crippling shake-up of their ranks after a Supreme Court ruling gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act that had protected minority communities in political redistricting and helped boost their representation
April 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision weakening a landmark voting rights law opens the door for Republican lawmakers to dismantle Democratic-held U.S.
April 30, 2026
The Supreme Court has weakened a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere
April 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country
April 30, 2026
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April 29, 2026
Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s historic Voting Rights Act opinion and what’s next for the midterms
April 30, 2026
The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped combat racial discrimination in voting for over 50 years
April 29, 2026
The conservative majority at the US Supreme Court has issued a ruling in a gerrymandering case that one liberal justice called the ‘now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.’
April 29, 2026
Ron DeSantis is back in the national spotlight as he pushes for a new congressional map in Florida
April 28, 2026
Virginia's Supreme Court is considering whether a voter-approved redistricting amendment complied with the state's constitutional requirements
April 27, 2026
Tracking states’ unprecedented redistricting efforts
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Indiana GOP lawmakers defied Trump on redistricting. Now GOP voters may thwart his push for revenge
April 26, 2026
Republicans pressure Ron DeSantis to redistrict in Florida after Virginia Democrats’ win
April 23, 2026
Democrats are celebrating an election win in Virginia that could put them slightly ahead in the national redistricting competition that President Donald Trump triggered in an attempt to preserve his party’s House majority in this year’s midterms
April 23, 2026
Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a new Democratic-drawn congressional map that could flip four Republican U.S.
April 21, 2026
Virginia voters to decide on redrawing congressional district maps this week
April 20, 2026
Pinwheels and the ‘lobster district’: How Virginia Democrats drew up a US House map to all but lock out Republicans
April 20, 2026
President Donald Trump's influence on the Republican Party is facing a test in Indiana's upcoming primary
April 18, 2026
Worried about the midterms, Republicans mobilize rural Virginia voters against redistricting
April 15, 2026
Rep. Kevin Kiley of California says he’s dropping his Republican Party affiliation to serve as an independent
March 10, 2026
Trump administration appeals court order in effort to cut vaccine recommendations for kids
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The pastor of the nation’s largest Methodist church is running for the US Senate in Kansas
Afghan women allowed to compete as national football side
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Solar ranch in Tennessee aims to prove grazing cattle under the panels is a farmland win-win
Harvey Weinstein's lawyers question his accuser at his rape retrial
World's tallest basketball player, 7-foot-9 Olivier Rioux, signs with UC Irvine