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During the first two years of the Biden administration, Democrats failed to pass their own voting legislation despite a ...
The legislation would restore the critical preclearance requirement section in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that was gutted ...
It is part of SCOTUSblog’s 2020 Election Litigation Tracker, a joint project with Election Law at Ohio State. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is widely considered to be the single most important federal ...
LANSING — Civil rights activist Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr. will be the keynote speaker at the 40th Annual Day of Celebration ...
The 1965 Voting Rights Act barred voting restrictions based on race. But a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling essentially rendered part of the law moot. The court invited Congress to update it and the ...
Several states have enacted state-level voting rights acts ... Voting Rights Act are likely to remain stalled under a GOP trifecta of power in Washington, D.C. That landmark 1965 law is also ...