A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal ...

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals rules private individuals and groups can't sue over racial bias in voting in seven Midwest ...

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 victory comes after recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have undermined voting rights laws. “If any case was going to ...

The ruling shuts off a route to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act through a federal civil rights law known as Section 1983, which allows people to sue state officials to vindicate their federal ...

Plaintiffs did not try to take that 2023 case to the Supreme Court to try to get the ruling ... down the Voting Rights Act, just like it rejected different extreme arguments made by Alabama ...

"Today's ruling wrongly blocks Native voters in North Dakota—who have fought for nearly a century for fair representation—from challenging gerrymandered maps under the Voting Rights Act. But Tribal ...

A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal Voting Rights Act went even further Wednesday toward blocking lawsuits over ...