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The next victim of the Supreme Court’s voting rights decision will be workers
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice released an opinion on Tuesday that, in the likely event it is embraced by a Republican-controlled federal judiciary, would make it s…
In the Tank for Trump—and Over a Barrel on the Hill
Blanche, Bondi, and Boutros: This Week, three Bs = a lotta B.S.…
Defending democracy is voters’ top priority in California governor’s race, poll finds
A broad majority of California voters are worried about threats to democracy and the erosion of voting rights, according to a new Berkeley IGS Poll.…
Pas à Pas de Callais: SCOTUS Okays Alabama Congressional Map
It's game on again in Alabama for a new congressional map after a Supreme Court intervention. This time, the state didn't pass a brand-new map, but instead reinstated the map they …
Sonia Sotomayor Bluntly Exposed the Supreme Court’s Latest Voting Rights Lie
SCOTUS delivered yet another crushing blow to voting rights on Tuesday night, issuing a 6–3 decision over the shadow docket.…
The Supreme Court For The First Time Refers To Our "Colorblind Constitution"
130 years later, Justice Harlan's Plessy dissent is now the "supreme law of the land."…
Supreme Court Rebukes Effort To Force Race-Based House Map On Deep Red State
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday to allow Alabama to use a new map for congressional districts that a lower court previously blocked.…
The Supreme Court Just Transformed Its Horrible Voting Rights Ruling Into Something More Calamitous
What the Roberts Court has just wrought goes beyond handing an extra House seat to the GOP in the upcoming election.…
In Alabama, the Roberts Court Hands Republicans Yet Another Shocking Gerrymandering Win
By reinstating a discriminatory map, the justices are once again doing all they can to help the GOP.…
Alabama Victorious As SCOTUS Decides They Can Use 2023 Maps, Eliminating One Majority-Minority District
SCOTUS allows Alabama to use 2023 maps with one majority-minority district for 2026 elections.…
How Congress Can Pass a New Voting Rights Act Despite the Supreme Court
Even after Callais, Congress has the power, under the guarantee clause, to stamp out state efforts to decimate Black representation.…
U.S. Supreme Court approves Republican-drawn voting map in Alabama
Supreme Court allows Alabama to use Republican-drawn voting map, enabling potential electoral advantage amid ongoing redistricting debates.…
U.S. Supreme Court clears way for Alabama to use pro-Republican voting map
Congressional map favours Republicans and eliminates one of two districts where Black voters make up a majority or near-majority…
Supreme Court AGAIN Rules in Favor of Alabama's Pro-GOP Map
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 2 intervened again to confirm its previous ruling that will allow Alabama to move forward with a map eliminating racial gerrymandering.…
Supreme Court reinstates Republican-favored Alabama congressional districts
The ruling means that Alabama's 2026 midterm elections will feature six Republican-leaning districts and one Democratic-leaning one.…
Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district
Court decision that represents win for Republicans comes after lengthy battle over state’s congressional map Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Alabama can use a red…
Supreme Court lets Alabama use House map that favors GOP in midterms
The Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a House map that is more favorable to Republicans, despite a lower court finding that the plan intentionally discriminated agai…
Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that eliminates a majority-Black district
A lower court had ruled the map intentionally discriminated against Black voters.…
The Arc of the Voting Rights Act
Louisiana Republicans erased a majority-Black congressional district.…
Louisiana Republicans pass new electoral map that guts majority-Black district
The GOP-friendly map approved by state lawmakers now goes to Republican governor who is expected to sign it…
Louisiana lawmakers pass a congressional map to dismantle a majority-Black district
Louisiana's Republican lawmakers raced to eliminate one of two majority-Black congressional seats in the state after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the current map unconstitutional i…
Louisiana Approves Map Eliminating a Majority-Black District
A Supreme Court court ruling last month rejected the state’s previous congressional map as an illegal racial gerrymander and set off a redistricting race across the South.…
Alabama pushes US Supreme Court to approve congressional map for midterms
Republicans have revived a push to implement a congressional map that was rejected in 2023 for racial discrimination.…
In Alabama Case, Supreme Court Faces First Major Test of Voting Rights Act Ruling
Republican leaders in the state have asked the justices to clear the way for a congressional map that a lower court found discriminated against Black voters.…
Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow congressional map found racially discriminatory
Alabama Republicans asked the Supreme Court to allow the state to use a congressional map that would give the GOP an edge in the midterm elections.…
Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow use of congressional map helping GOP, despite racial bias ruling
Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, despite a lower court ruling the map intentionally discrim…
Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow congressional map that dilutes Black vote
A three-judge panel in Birmingham, Alabama, found that the state's proposed map of House districts was 'intentionally discriminatory."…
‘We’re going backwards’: Black political power under threat in Alabama after Voting Rights Act gutting
US supreme court ruling could eliminate two majority-Black districts and entrench Republican control from Congress to county school boards…
Trump's Latest Attack on Voting Rights
<p>The president is pushing states to create citizenship lists to prevent non-citizens from voting</p>…
Why Conservatives Are Trying to Kill the Voting Rights Act
On this week’s “More To The Story,” New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie examines the conservative movement’s yearslong effort to challenge the right to vote across the country.…
DUKE: Judicial Tyranny Comes Raring Back To Defend Racial Gerrymandering
A federal court is trying to pull a judicial mulligan after the Supreme Court gave Alabama another shot at using its GOP-backed congressional map.…
Congressional Black Caucus presses companies in the US to oppose Republican redistricting push
The Congressional Black Caucus is calling on major corporations in the United States to oppose redistricting efforts by Republican-led states that seek to eliminate majority-Black …
Congressional Black Caucus presses companies in the US to oppose Republican redistricting push
The Congressional Black Caucus is calling on major corporations in the United States to oppose redistricting efforts by Republican-led states that seek to eliminate majority-Black …
Left keeps crying Jim Crow because Supreme Court rejected racial district games
A pastor rejects claims that the Supreme Court gutted voting rights, arguing the Louisiana v. Callais ruling ends racial sorting and advances equality.…
Three Judges Just Dared SCOTUS to Say What It Really Thinks About Black Voting Rights
A federal court in Alabama on Tuesday ruled, yet again, that the state had illegally discriminated against Black voters.…
Federal court blocks ‘tainted’ GOP-drawn Alabama congressional map
A federal court blocked Republicans’ new congressional map in Alabama that was intended to give them a key pickup opportunity, teeing up an expected appeal.…
Trump’s redistricting push suffers setbacks in Alabama, South Carolina
Federal judges blocked Alabama Republicans from installing a new map that would eliminate a district with majority Black populations. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at st…
Republican-Appointed Judges Just Gave the Roberts Court a Stunning Rebuke
A federal judicial panel strikes down an Alabama voting map the justices recently green lit.…
Congressional Black Caucus writes hundreds of companies to oppose redistricting efforts
In a letter to more than 250 corporations, the caucus called on businesses to condemn redistricting efforts that "silence" black voters.…
Federal court blocks Alabama Republicans' congressional map
Federal judges on Tuesday blocked Alabama Republicans’ plan to implement a new congressional map that could give the GOP a leg up in the upcoming midterm elections — a ruling that …
Federal Judges Try Keeping Race-Based Congressional Maps Alive Despite Supreme Court Ruling
A federal panel on Tuesday temporarily blocked Alabama Republicans' House map.…
Judges block Alabama districts that would dilute Black vote in 2026 congressional elections
A three-judge panel found that the 2023 congressional district maps adopted by Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters.…
Court blocks Alabama congressional map with 1 majority-Black district
The three-judge district court panel ordered Alabama to use a congressional map with two majority-Black districts in the upcoming midterm elections.…
‘One man, one vote’? Maybe Not in Trump’s America
A recent Supreme Court decision threatens a core democratic principle.…
AOC Tells the South It Needs Northern Progressives Again
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) went to Montgomery, Ala., and delivered exactly the kind of s…
Ro Khanna calls for ‘term limits’ and ‘expansion’ of the Supreme Court after voting rights ruling
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) tells Meet the Press that the Supreme Court's recent decision on the Voting Rights Act is “an assault on the civil rights legacy” and calls for term limit…
Clarence Thomas triumphs — and his legal vision, too
Clarence Thomas’ 34-year Supreme Court tenure has given originalism time to mature — from slogan to method and from method to law.…
Sam Alito’s Math on “Color-Blindness” Doesn’t Check Out
The math will not change. The only question is whether our laws will reckon with it.…
K’taka govt weighs SC move over SIR exercise
Karnataka may approach the Supreme Court over concerns about the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, fearing voter rights could be compromised. | India News…
Karnataka government mulls legal action over SIR
The Karnataka government is mulling over legal action over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being conducted by the Election Commission of India in the State from June 20, even …
Supreme Court ends racial stereotype gerrymandering
After arguments regarding the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Louisiana v. Callais last October, I wrote the likely holding striking racially gerrymandered voting districts would affe…
Germany's Merz proposes Ukraine as EU ‘associate member’ without voting rights
NAACP’s moronic ‘voting rights’ boycott will only hurt black teen athletes
When it comes to moronic political stunts, the NAACP’s call for a black boycott of athletic programs at southern universities is hard to beat.…
NAACP calls on athletes, fans to boycott NCAA sports programs in 8 states over voting rights
The NAACP is calling on Black student athletes and fans to boycott public universities in several Southern states over voting rights. LZ Granderson, opinion columnist at the Los An…
‘We will not go back to Jim Crow’: thousand of Mississippians rally for voting rights
Demonstration, held at historic location where the ‘Mississippi Plan’ was enacted, comes as southern states race to dilute Black voting power…
‘A Jackie Robinson moment’: Jeffries echoes NAACP calls for college sports boycott over voting rights
Top House Democrat calls out SEC schools for silence Campaign comes as states move to redraw voter maps Hakeem Jeffries, the top US House Democrat, has amplified calls for Black at…
The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem”
Preserving racial hierarchy remains one of most animating impulses in American political life. The post The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem” appeared first…
Ketanji Brown Jackson, the AOC of Jurisprudence, Has Thoughts About Court Neutrality
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warns Supreme Court must maintain neutrality to preserve public trust.…
NAACP calls for Black students to boycott Southern college sports
NAACP launched a campaign targetIng universities in Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Georgia.…
NAACP urges athletes to boycott southern US universities over voting rights
Organisation calls for Black athlete fan boycott over Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling, southern redistricting.…