A New Jersey Assembly panel approved bill creating state-level voting protections, as advocates warn of federal attacks on ...

Progressive advocacy groups are dismayed by what they say was a lackluster effort by Senate Democrats to scrutinize President ...

The pernicious emphasis on group rights over individual rights ran into a unanimous Supreme Court.

Some previous deployments restored peace after local crackdowns or vigilante violence, but sometimes troops intensified ...

House Republicans voted Tuesday to scrap a Washington, DC, law permitting noncitizens to vote in local elections and overturn another local law curtailing law enforcement liability protections.

The department has reversed course, abandoning much of its inherited voting rights caseload and leaving the state of Section 2 voter discrimination litigation fraught.

The last time was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the National Guard to protect Civil Rights marchers from ...