The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act was introduced last week by more than 200 House Democrats ahead of the anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, voting rights marchers walked ...

"The Nation" columnist Elie Mystal explained on "The Breakfast Club" why he thinks the U.S. should scrap the Constitution and try to write a new one: HARLAMAGNE: You're one of my favorite people to ...

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, aimed at keeping noncitizens from registering to vote, passed the House on Thursday. But the impacts to voting rights could reach married women and ...

The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal told “The View” co-hosts on Tuesday that all laws passed before the 1965 ...

The federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark civil rights law during one of ... The event helped galvanize national ...

The bloodshed in Selma prompted President Lyndon B Johnson to push for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever passed by Congress. The landmark Act ...

If our representatives in Washington D.C. do not address these overreaches by the President and his allies, then our rights here in Colorado are also at risk – hope is not a strategy.

The legal teeth of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibits racial discrimination in access ... at the ballot box,” said Marina Jenkins, executive director at National Redistricting Foundation.

Bill Would Strengthen Voter Protections and Access Amid Federal Uncertainty In the uncertain climate of the United States Congress at this moment, ...

This month, attorneys for the U.S. government took steps to drop three lawsuits over the rights of voters ... further weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. In one of the dropped lawsuits ...

Johnson Jr.’s order that we had a right to peaceful protest, and with National Guard protection ... Congress to pass what ...