The conservative majority could use the case to further weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act, which was enacted to protect minority voters.

FILE - Luci Baines Johnson looks at the desk May 16, 2023, on display at the LBJ Presidential Library, that President Lyndon B. Johnson sat at in the President's Room at the U.S. Capitol to sign the ...

ATLANTA, Ga. — It has been an unprecedented year for new voting laws. Some make it easier to cast a ballot, but others make voting more difficult. Eliza Sweren-Becker is the voting rights and election ...

Republicans are increasingly bullish they can whittle away at the Voting Rights Act (VRA) as Democrats renew a long-shot effort to broaden the landmark law that turns 60 next week. The Supreme Court ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from tradition, then-President Lyndon Johnson went to Capitol Hill ...