Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Currently the American people are threatened with disenfranchisement as both parties ...

Vice President JD Vance just came to Kansas City to tout a new map that would shut out Democrats. It doesn’t have to be this way. Getty Images The upshot of all this will not only be the ...

ATLANTA — The specter of the 2020 election — when President Donald Trump refused to accept his loss to Democrat Joe Biden — continues to haunt Georgia and casts a long shadow over the Republican ...

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In a 6-3 decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district, ruling it an unconstitutional gerrymander. The ruling has significant implications ...

In a major ruling that would permit weakening the voting power of minorities in the United States, the Supreme Court on April 29, 2026, struck down a Black-majority district in Louisiana’s ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday limited the scope of a key Voting Rights Act provision that restricts how states draw districts affecting minority voters, constraining states' use of race as a factor ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the civil rights movement. By Sonia A. Rao The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday kicked yet another leg out from under the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 civil rights law that Chief Justice John Roberts’ court has repeatedly undermined over the ...

Aaron Navarro is a CBS News digital reporter. He covered the 2024 elections and was previously an associate producer for the CBS News political unit in the 2021 and 2022 election cycles. Washington — ...