Senate Republicans celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by plotting paths forward for right-wing lawyers and elected officials to further erode minority electoral power at a hearing Tuesday.
Senate Democrats lambasted the politicization of the Department of Justice during President Donald Trump’s second term, grilling acting Attorney General Todd Blanche at a budget hearing Tuesday.
Democratic senators demanded that the White House immediately end Kurt Olsen’s tenure as President Donald Trump’s director of election security and integrity Monday.
A federal judge appeared reluctant to swiftly check President Donald Trump’s latest anti-voting executive order, suggesting at oral arguments Thursday that there’s no legal harm for the courts to remedy until the diktat is actually implemented.
By a 27-10 vote, the Senate passed a bill that would draw out the House district currently represented by Rep. Cleo Fields (D), replacing it with one far more likely to vote for a Republican.
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) quest for unfettered access to state voter registration records stumbled Wednesday as a panel of federal judges at times expressed incredulity at the government’s arguments that it has a right to Michigan’s rolls.
At 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Louisiana Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 4-3 down party lines to advance a bill to the floor that would draw out the majority-Black U.S House seat currently held by Rep. Cleo Fields (D).
President Donald Trump’s gerrymandering war of 2025-26 has taken several twists and turns. But Republicans now appear poised to emerge with an advantage. That reality is taking shape after last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling spurred a slew of southern red states to start the process of drawing new GOP-friendly maps, and after Virginia’s high […]
Even as the U.S. Supreme Court bludgeoned the Voting Rights Act (VRA) into a coma — still technically alive, but hardly kicking — most voters still think the landmark civil rights law is needed, new polling finds.
The U.S. Supreme Court shot down a request Wednesday to reconsider fast-tracking the order implementing its decision in Louisiana v. Callais, the case that gutted the Voting Rights Act.