The Supreme Court is reviewing a case centered on Section 2 of the voting rights act, which prohibits electoral practices ...

Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Fifteenth Amendment was ...

Paul G. Summers is a lawyer. He is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether Louisiana's intentional creation of a second majority-Black district violates ...

An illustration of Black people in line to vote. Harper's Weekly Magazine. At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency in 1868, Americans were struggling to reconstruct a nation torn ...

A battle over Louisiana's congressional map led to the racially and politically charged case. Could it impact the Voting ...

The Trump appointee could cast a pivotal vote in a Louisiana case affecting the future of voting rights in the United States.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to revisit a congressional map case it first heard earlier this year that could ...