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

Deuel Ross has written this fascinating article for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Here is the abstract: Voting is an act of faith. Faith that your vote will matter. Faith that ...

From literacy tests and poll taxes to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, every gain in voting rights has been met ...

Voter suppression — a shameful part of our history — is designed to prevent voting, or registering to vote, by American ...

Weeks earlier, the Justice Department withdrew a request to take part in Supreme Court oral arguments for a Louisiana ...

Colorado Democrats push for state Voting Rights Act to strengthen voting rights, potentially facing legal challenges to its ...

Secretary of State Dr. Shirley Weber condemned Trump’s executive order altering voter registration and ballot counting rules.

The order requires forms of ID that an estimated 20 million American voters currently lack, while rejecting a birth ...

Mere weeks after the Edmund Pettus march, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was presented to Congress on March 17, 1965. President Johnson signed the bill into law on August 6, 1965. Since 1965, voting ...