The House has passed a bill to require proof of citizenship for voting. Although it likely won’t become law, the bill raises constitutional questions.

Section two of the Voting Rights Act allows plaintiffs to sue states for drawing districts that dilute the power of minority ...

Commentary: Chief Justice John Roberts has tried for years to weaken the Voting Rights Act. With a coming Supreme Court decision, he may finally get his wish. President Lyndon B. Johnson presents one ...

Forty years ago, the U.S. government began observing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a federal holiday. Were King alive today, he would surely be sounding the alarm about numerous ...

Mr. King is chair of the Drum Major Institute and the son of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mr. Ornstein is a retired scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. The future of the Voting Rights ...

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Voting rights cases will come before the Supreme Court in this term with added attention and potential dread. Louisiana v. Callais, which concerns the state’s redistricting and whether there should be ...

WASHINGTON — 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 justices ...

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A proposal allowing mid-decade redistricting of Virginia’s congressional maps that cleared the legislature last week may dominate debate heading into a spring special referendum, but a constitutional ...

WASHINGTON — Long Island Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) reversed course Monday and said he “failed” his constituents by voting to fund federal immigration operations as part of a spending package that passed ...

CBS News Miami's Marybel Rodriguez explains why the issue is coming back up for debate and how residents are reacting. Top business leaders issue an expletive-laced message on the green backlash ...