The Voting Rights Act cleared the chamber by a 77-17 vote on May 26, 1965. The bill faced similar scrutiny in the House of Representatives, where some felt it did not go far enough against ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 18 others urging the Eighth Circuit to uphold the VRA provision defending the right to sue over racial discrimination in voting.

A young janitor’s role in thwarting an attempted bombing in 1958 is the latest addition to an Alabama oral history project ...

Trump's deployment of the National Guard to L.A. is the latest in a long history of elected officials sending troops in hopes of thwarting unrest.

Late last month, the Trump administration dismissed all cases in which the U.S. Department of Justice sought to enforce the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 and removed all the senior attorneys ...

The Justice Department’s unit tasked with enforcing federal voting laws is down from roughly 30 attorneys to about a half-dozen,, as most of its career staff has departed in the face of ...

Laws restricting non-citizens from voting already exist, posing the question of what  the goal of the SAVE Act truly is?

Andrew Goodman, along with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were murdered in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964 ...

The Supreme Court turned away Virginia’s appeal on Monday that sought to quash a challenge to the state’s lifetime voting ban ...

On Wednesday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 18 other attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that urges the court to uphold a ...

For decades, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided robust federal protections against discriminatory voting laws, especially in states with histories of racial disenfranchisement. However, the ...