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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic ...
U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has long telegraphed his desire to gut crucial portions of the Voting Rights Act, ...
The Supreme Court is revisiting the Voting Rights Act, potentially altering safeguards against discriminatory voting maps.
Thomas was one of four conservative justices who dissented in Thursday's 5-4 ruling that backed the Voting Rights Act.
Under Republican presidential administrations, meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act would become an aspirational nullity if private actors were not allowed to seek remedies in court.
The justices opted not to rule on a Louisiana redistricting case involving racial gerrymandering.
The decision by 8th Circuit Court Judge David Stras, a Trump appointee, seizes on a suggestion by Justice Clarence Thomas that few took seriously.
Clarence Thomas' former clerk has approved changes to how the Voting Rights Act can be enforced in seven states, in what has been described as a "body blow" for voters' rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court kept millions of Louisianans — and millions more across the nation — waiting for one of the most ...
On Wednesday, the Voting Rights Act suffered the second shot in a brutal new one-two punch, and some worry it could lead to a knockout blow at the Supreme Court.
This time, they've teed up an argument that it is unconstitutional for Congress to allow race-based redistricting to continue ...
Sixty years ago this summer, Congress enacted the nation-transforming Voting Rights Act. Soon, however, Congress and a ...