The lawsuit was brought by residents of the town of Newburgh who claimed its at-large election system diluted the vote of ...
A New York appeals court on Thursday reversed a ruling from a judge that struck down a state voting rights law designed to protect the political voice of minority groups. The ruling from the Appellate ...
A state appellate court on Thursday unanimously reinstated New York's John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2022, a law that prohibits "vote dilution" actions by municipalities. In a ruling penned by ...
This article was originally published in Bolts Magazine. Conservative judges have chipped away at voting rights and put the ...
Voting has become the most frequently practiced and revered civic duty of everyday Americans. Over 700,000 cast ballots across Philadelphia in November for president and other offices.
As states around the country have been passing voter suppression laws or similar policies, work continues to be done to ...
The civil lawsuit says those at-large elections violate the Voting Rights Act by unfairly diluting the influence of Black ...
The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Houston County, Ga., alleging its process for electing its board of ...
The long-running fight over Georgia's district lines for Congress and the state legislature could have broader implications ...
The plaintiffs in the case, including Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, a historically Black fraternity active in civil rights causes, claimed the enacted maps diminished Black voting power by failing to ...
The president may have let his true priority slip during a Fox News interview. Sean Hepburn Ferrer, the son of the late ...
The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it has filed a lawsuit against Houston County, Georgia, to challenge the ...