The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from tradition, then-President Lyndon Johnson went to Capitol Hill to sign the bill ...

The law has been slowly eroding for more than a decade, starting with the 2013 Supreme Court decision ending the requirement ...

Alicia Stroble sat before the Oklahoma Supreme Court more than a year ago, surrounded by tribal attorneys and backed by the ...

Gov. Greg Abbott filed an emergency petition Tuesday with the Texas Supreme Court to remove state Rep. Gene Wu from office after Wu and other Democrats left the state to delay Republican efforts to ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022, women in states like Georgia have fewer reproductive rights.

Education, once a shared public good, is increasingly becoming a battleground. And at the center of it is a Supreme Court ...

The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

It might sound radical, because only two states — Maine and Vermont — allow people with felony convictions to vote from ...

In 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later an atomic bomb hit ...

But the power dynamic that defines it is increasingly visible in the new style of American corruption under Trump, too. Trump ...

Jair Bolsonaro placed under house arrest by Brazil's Supreme Court after addressing supporters at Rio protest, violating ...