How challenges to the Voting Rights Act could reshape the political ...

Legal challenges surrounding voting rights in multiple states could alter the nation's political landscape ahead of the 2024 elections.

SUMMARY. Legal challenges surrounding voting rights in multiple states could alter the nation's political landscape ahead of the 2024 elections.

Challenges to Voting Rights Act reshape political landscape

And another ruling could roll back decades of enforcement that protected minority representation. Laura Barrón-López discussed more with Janai ...

Challenges to Voting Rights Act reshape political landscape

And another ruling could roll back decades of enforcement that protected minority representation. Laura Barrón-López discussed more with Janai Nelson. Watch now.

Watch Challenges to Voting Rights Act reshape political landscape

And another ruling could roll back decades of enforcement that protected minority representation. Laura Barrón-López discussed more with Janai Nelson. Read more.

Voting Rights Act's legal challenges to watch in 2024 - NPR

In ongoing redistricting lawsuits mainly across the South, Republican state officials have been raising novel arguments that threaten to erode a ...

This U.S. Supreme Court Case Could Reshape Black Political Power

In 2021, a group of voters, Greater Birmingham Ministries, and the Alabama NAACP sued the state over a newly enacted congressional map. They ...

Restoring the Voting Rights Act | Brennan Center for Justice

The 59th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act underscores the urgent need to protect the freedom to vote, especially for people of color.

How the Voting Rights Act, Newly Challenged, Has Long Been ...

A federal ruling this week was only the latest in decades of legal challenges to a law that has shored up Black Americans' political power.

What backlash to landmark voting law tells us about debate today

The Voting Rights Act has been hailed as a key civil rights law by Republican and Democratic presidents alike. But a closer look at its reception in 1965 shows ...

Out of Step: U.S. Policy on Voting Rights in Global Perspective

The widespread denial of voting rights and its link to mass incarceration is grounded in the use of felony disenfranchisement laws that helped ...

The Fight Against Voter Suppression | American Civil Liberties Union

More than 400 anti-voter bills have been introduced in 48 states. These bills erect unnecessary barriers for people to register to vote, vote by mail, or vote ...

A Court Ruling Poses A New Threat To The Voting Rights Act's ...

Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that private individuals and groups, like the ACLU or NAACP, can't sue under a key section of the ...

State Voting Rights Acts: Protecting Voting Rights and Democracy

With rampant voter suppression laws and restrictions, State Voting Rights Acts are critical to protecting voters at the ballot box and ensuring a future of ...

Unraveling the Rise of Mass Voter Challenges - Protect Democracy

Mass challenges can have real impacts on the election process: first, by potentially disenfranchising or deterring eligible voters who are the targets of ...

Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that's still shaping ...

Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.

The Voting Rights Act Explained | Brennan Center for Justice

The landmark 1965 law is one of the most successful civil rights measures in history, but the Supreme Court has eviscerated it.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Background and Overview

The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was successfully challenged in a June 2013 case decided by the. U.S. Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v.

New voting laws in swing states could shape 2024 election

States have made the rules that govern elections either tighter or looser in the run-up to the 2024 vote, depending on which party has been in charge.

Legislative races could shape election policies in swing states

In states including Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, she said, the Voting Rights Lab is watching how lawmakers handle ...