In part 1 of this post, we explained how Callais v. Louisiana extinguished vote-dilution claims under the Voting Rights Act without admitting to doing so. Once again, Justice Samuel Alito’s majority

Ever since the recent decision of the Supreme Court limiting the use of race in drawing congressional districts, there has been a steady drumbeat of

We explain the significance of the Supreme Court’s decision. By Sam Sifton I am the host of The Morning. The Voting Rights Act was supposed to end discrimination against minority voters. Did it work? A Supreme Court majority thinks so. Its ruling against ...

In truth, Callais did something far more extreme: it rewrote the VRA, and in doing so, made vote-dilution claims impossible. Perhaps even more radically, Callais may have turned the Fourteenth Amendment into a tool to undo the legacy of this transformative statute.

The SAVE Act, a bill that would dramatically overhaul elections nationwide and potentially disenfranchise millions of voters, was approved by the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The legislation, which President Trump has been urging Congress to pass ...

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision has further crippled the Voting Rights Act of 1965 while moving it a significant step closer to being on life support, a longtime area religious leader said. “Here we are,