The Court of Appeals says the town of Newburgh cannot mount a constitutional challenge, clearing the way for residents' ...
A lawsuit against an upstate New York town alleging voter discrimination will be allowed to proceed after the state's highest ...
The Court of Appeals kept in tact a 2022 law that strengthened voting rights of New Yorkers, tailored to prohibit vote ...
60 years after its signing, the Voting Rights Act faces mounting legal threats that could unravel its core protections. Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to strike down a 2024 congressional map that a group of voters has challenged as the product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering – that is, ...
Since the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, African Americans have been allowed to vote in elections for the past 60 years. After an oral argument in the Supreme Court that’s disputing a ...