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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 ...

The legislation would restore the critical preclearance requirement section in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that was gutted ...

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 ...

Voter rights advocacy groups say the legislation runs afoul of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; Americans with Disabilities Act; and the First, 14th and 15th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. Three ...

Now, the Michigan Legislature has the chance to pass a collection of four bills, together known as the Michigan Voting Rights Act. A state voting rights act is a category of laws designed to ...