Supreme Court limits Voting Rights Act … Liberal groups had feared the court would fully gut the law, allowing red states to redraw maps nationwide and effectively lock in GOP control of Congress.  Republicans, meanwhile, believe that considering race in drawing congressional districts is discriminatory and unconstitutional.

Supreme Court voids majority Black congressional district in Louisiana, boosting Republican chances  —  The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana's second majority Black congressional district in a decision that could open the door for Republican-led states to eliminate Black …

Breaking: On 6-3 Party Line Vote, Supreme Court Drastically Weakens Voting Rights Act in Callais Case to Make It Much Harder for Minority Plaintiffs to Get Fair Representation in Redistricting  —  On a 6-3 vote, with all Republican appointees in favor and all Democratic appointees opposed …

Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now  —  Just say it's because they're Democrats.  —  For the conservative editor and columnist James Jackson Kilpatrick, the Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation was an atrocity.  Brown v. Board of Education, he wrote in the 1950s, was a …

SCOTUS Drops The Other Shoe on the Voting Rights Act  —  Today's decision renders Section 2 [of the Voting Rights Act] all but a dead letter....The decision here is about Louisiana's District 6.  But so too...about the many other districts, particularly in the South, that in the last half-century …

Republicans unlock filibuster-skirting power to pump billions of dollars to ICE … President Donald Trump wants the final product on his desk by June 1, completing one step in the two-part plan to resolve the DHS funding lapse that began more than 10 weeks ago.  —  “What choice do we have?”