The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the ...

Shelby County leaders got a look Wednesday at a new plan to move the county’s jails and courts from 201 Poplar and Shelby ...

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and it's clear that Texans still needs its protections.

Most notably, in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), the Republican justices held that federal courts may not hear suits ...

The Supreme Court signaled its appetite to pull more teeth from the Voting Rights Act, rendering it all but biteless.

The justices may limit the ability of courts to take race into account when trying to remedy under-representation by minority ...

Texas has a long history of violating the VRA. The state’s current congressional redistricting map, adopted in 2021, is being ...

A plan to build a new jail in the North Memphis neighborhood of New Chicago is getting pushback from people in the community.

The Supreme Court will hear a case over the creation of minority-majority congressional districts under the Voting Rights Act as states weigh redistricting.

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The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.

In doing so, the court would extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality. If ...