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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.
The justices opted not to rule on a Louisiana redistricting case involving racial gerrymandering.
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.
Thomas said he's "long been convinced" that the Voting Rights Act only regulates voters' ability to actually get to the ballot or cast it. The gerrymandered maps were used in the 2022 election.
The U.S. Supreme Court kept millions of Louisianans — and millions more across the nation — waiting for one of the most ...
The decision by 8th Circuit Court Judge David Stras, a Trump appointee, seizes on a suggestion by Justice Clarence Thomas that few took seriously.
Other courts had reached contrary conclusions, but the 8 th Circuit followed signals from two justices on the Supreme Court regularly hostile to voting rights claims—Neil Gorsuch and Clarence ...
The case posed the question whether Louisiana’s compliance with the Voting Rights Act was constitutional, threatening to hobble the landmark law.
This time, they've teed up an argument that it is unconstitutional for Congress to allow race-based redistricting to continue without an end date under the Voting Rights Act. Justices Brett Kavanaugh ...
Sixty years ago this summer, Congress enacted the nation-transforming Voting Rights Act. Soon, however, Congress and a ...