Republicans have gained an advantage in a national congressional redistricting battle among states ahead of the midterm elections
May 05, 2026
Tennessee Republicans on Thursday approved a new congressional map dismantling a majority-Black U.S.
May 08, 2026
Tennessee has enacted a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis
May 07, 2026
Chief Justice Roberts defends Supreme Court against charges of partisan rulings
May 07, 2026
The primary election results in Indiana have shown how President Donald Trump can punish Republican lawmakers who defy him
May 06, 2026
States are rushing to redistrict following a Supreme Court voting rights decision. Here's why Ohio won't be.
May 06, 2026
Spike Lee tells Laura Coates the Supreme Court's ruling gutting portions of the voting rights act is an attack on voters. But he points out, the country has been through difficulties before and "we gotta work."
May 06, 2026
Alito and Jackson’s fiery debate over the Voting Rights Act exposes Supreme Court tensions
May 06, 2026
How Supreme Court ruling could shape future of Arizona voting maps
May 06, 2026
The U.S.
May 05, 2026
Supreme Court justices spar over Louisiana’s effort to speed up elimination of majority-Black congressional district
May 05, 2026
Lawmakers in several southern states are meeting this week to consider redistricting plans in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act
May 04, 2026
How Florida designed a US House map aiming to give Republicans four more seats
May 05, 2026
All meaning has been erased from the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That's what CNN Chief Legal Analyst and Anchor, Laura Coates, is arguing. Laura spent years as a career prosecutor in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. And she warns minority voting power will be diluted and efforts to change that will now be "insurmountable" to prove.
May 03, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court has escalated a nationwide redistricting war by removing one of the few remaining limits on partisan gerrymandering
May 04, 2026
The Supreme Court keeps overturning precedent. It swears that it’s not
May 03, 2026
A generation of Black Americans across the South fought in courtrooms and in the streets during the Civil Rights Movement to dismantle barriers to voting
May 02, 2026
A Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana has amplified an already intense national redistricting battle
May 01, 2026
Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Thursday suspended the state's May 16 congressional primary election just two days before early voting was set to begin,
May 01, 2026
The Supreme Court’s ruling that a Black-majority voting district in Louisiana is unconstitutional adds to a long and dismal history of government attempts to limit the power of minority voters.
April 30, 2026
The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect thousands of Black and Hispanic representatives at all levels of government
April 30, 2026
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has often been called the crown jewel of the U.S. civil rights movement. But under a U.S.
April 30, 2026
John Roberts’ effort to gut the Voting Rights Act is complete
April 30, 2026
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry told Republican House candidates on Wednesday that he planned to suspend next month’s primary elections to allow state lawmakers to pass a new
April 30, 2026
Black members of Congress are bracing for a crippling shake-up of their ranks after a Supreme Court ruling gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act that had protected minority communities in political redistricting and helped boost their representation
April 30, 2026
The Supreme Court has weakened a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere
April 29, 2026
Several states already are taking steps to respond to a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana
April 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country
April 30, 2026
The U.S.
April 29, 2026
Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s historic Voting Rights Act opinion and what’s next for the midterms
April 30, 2026
The conservative majority at the US Supreme Court has issued a ruling in a gerrymandering case that one liberal justice called the ‘now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.’
April 29, 2026
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is announcing a special session for judicial redistricting following an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a major Voting Rights Act case
April 25, 2026
Democrats are celebrating an election win in Virginia that could put them slightly ahead in the national redistricting competition that President Donald Trump triggered in an attempt to preserve his party’s House majority in this year’s midterms
April 23, 2026
Trump’s new role for USPS in mail balloting is unconstitutional, three lawsuits say
April 03, 2026
After the Voting Rights Act, federal election observers helped ensure fair voting, but that oversight has increasingly shifted focus − to monitor what Washington says is voter fraud and accusations of cheating.
April 01, 2026
States ready to seize Supreme Court redistricting decision amid countdown to midterm elections
February 14, 2026
The Supreme Court appears poised to abolish a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It may draw on a constitutional amendment that empowered African Americans.
February 03, 2026
A US district judge is weighing whether the surge of ICE agents in the state violates the US Constitution or falls within the executive’s power to enforce federal law.
January 26, 2026
A judge on Friday ordered special elections for the Mississippi Supreme Court after earlier finding that the electoral map used to select justices violated the Voting Rights Act
December 19, 2025
The Justice Department and California are facing off in federal court over the state's new congressional map that favors Democrats
December 15, 2025
Federal judges have upheld several U.S. House districts drawn by North Carolina Republicans in 2023
November 21, 2025
When President Donald Trump began an extraordinary campaign this summer pressuring Republican lawmakers to redraw state congressional maps, starting with Texas, some Democrats
November 20, 2025
Examining Brown v. Board, race and ‘equal protection’ through the eyes of the modern Supreme Court
November 14, 2025
Supreme Court rejects Meta's appeal in Vermont social media addiction case
PWHL expansion upends the job market for coaches and GMs as Hockey Canada starts search
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner stands by ad slamming Red Sox over private equity
Trump administration proposes NDAs for federal employees to stop leaks
Portugal police say operation breaks up large-scale illegal immigration network