The theme was "The Fierce Urgency of Now," a reference to a quote by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.

The President’s goals were clear on the first day of his term, when he issued an executive order overruling the Fourteenth ...

As a 23-year-old voter in still-segregated 1960s Virginia, Portia Haskins was convinced she had followed all the rules in order to cast a ballot in Arlington. Election officials disagreed, saying she ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has several avenues at its disposal as it appears poised to limit a central ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the ...

Democrats and Republicans have set aside resources for the anticipated Florida redistricting battle ahead of the midterms.

In 2013, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in a case known as Shelby v. Holder that removed the preclearance requirement in the Civil Rights-era law. States that had been under its jurisdiction ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century, a ...

Newsom and his Illinois counterpart, Gov. JB Pritzker, have warned that Trump’s attempts to send the U.S. military into their ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared inclined to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act to force states to draw electoral districts favorable to minority voters.The court's six conservative ...