The article covers ongoing election law cases across the U.S., including redistricting, voting rights, and ballot access. In New York, courts are debating election timing, vote dilution, and candidate ...
Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not ...
Sixty years ago this week, on Aug. 6, 1965, surrounded by such civil rights titans as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into ...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear reargument Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais, which some commentators say could spell major trouble for Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Welcome to Supreme Court ...
The Supreme Court last week announced it wants to reconsider one of the core assumptions behind the Voting Rights Act: whether it’s even constitutional to intentionally draw congressional districts ...
Thousands of formerly incarcerated people in Tennessee will not be able to vote in upcoming elections, according to a new ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed headed for another ruling that undercuts the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. Once considered the jewel in the crown of the civil rights movement, the Voting ...