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Nation Review - 46 min 20 sec agoThe Supreme Court rightly puts an end to the routine use of racial segregation in drawing legislative districts.
Latest ruling is culmination of Justices Roberts and Alito's campaign to slowly but surely strangle efforts to protect democratic rights of Black and other minority Americans The ruling from the US supreme court destroying one of the last pillars of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) marks the end of a long and painstaking campaign to roll back civil rights legislation by two titans of the court's rightwing majority, chief justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Acting as an unspoken double...
The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in a move that could make it harder for lawmakers to create majority-minority voting districts.
Senators in both parties say the Supreme Court has roiled the political landscape ahead of the midterm elections by effectively striking down majority-minority House districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. Democrats vented their rage over a ruling they said would return the nation to the Jim Crow-era policies of the 1950s and early '60s, when Black...
Colorado has an independent redistricting commission that Democrats are now trying to undo.
People lining up to register to vote in Selma, Ala., in February 1965.
The US was not a true democracy before the Voting Rights Act. Wednesday's decision has essentially destroyed the law Is America a democracy? The term implies an equality of rights and dignity among citizens, a collective and uniform right of individuals to participate in self-government and to shape the laws that rule them. In that sense, the answer is no: though it has been a republic since its founding, America has only rarely been a true democracy, one where all citizens have the full right...
NPR - 2 hours 17 min agoBy weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.
NPR - 2 hours 34 min agoNPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kareem Crayton of the Brennan Center for Justice about the bigger implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on voting rights.
ABC News - 5 hours 37 min agoThe U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country...
ABC News - 5 hours 37 min agoSeveral states already are taking steps to respond to a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana...
ABC News - 5 hours 38 min agoBrazil's Senate rejects president's Supreme Court nominee for first time in more than 100 years...
ABC News - 5 hours 41 min agoBlack members of Congress are bracing for a crippling shakeup of their ranks after a Supreme Court ruling gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act that had protected minority communities in political redistricting and helped boost their representa...
On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court took away one of the Democrat Party's most cherished w...
The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country.
MAHA moms clash with Trump admin over glyphosate use, and rally at Supreme Court, as Farm Bill vote looms ahead of midterms.
This live blog is now closed. Sign up for the Breaking News US email US supreme court demolishes' key Voting Rights Act provision that prevented racial discrimination The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday after a key policy meeting, likely the last chaired by central bank chief Jerome Powell, a frequent target of president Donald Trump's ire. Policymakers will weigh the risks of surging energy prices and snarled supply chains due to the US-Israel...
The justices on Wednesday considered whether the Trump administration had legally ended the Temporary Protected Status program for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians.
Court's 6-3 decision is a major upheaval in US civil rights law and gives lawmakers permission to draw districting plans that weaken the influence of Black and other minority voters key US politics stories from Wednesday 29 April at a glance The US supreme court has ruled that Louisiana will have to redraw its congressional map, in a landmark decision that effectively guts a major section of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 civil rights law that prevents racial discrimination in voting...
Landmark Supreme Court ruling on voting rights...
The Newsom Press Office, Gavin Newsom's official X account, is not taking the Supreme Court ruling a...
ABC News pretended to report on what the Supreme Court was deliberating on Wednesday, but somehow ma...
Vote comes on same day the US supreme court rolls back a key provision of the Voting Rights Act The Florida legislature approved a new congressional map intended to maximize Republicans' advantage in the state as part of the national redistricting battle that Donald Trump launched before this year's midterms. The vote came just two days after the governor, Ron DeSantis , unveiled his proposal and the same day the US supreme court rolled back a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. The...
It shouldn't be surprising Graham Platner, Nazi running for Senate as a Democrat in Maine, is upset...
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