A federal judge ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1960 does not require states to preserve statewide voter registration lists, limiting the Justice Department’s authority to inspect only the individual applications voters submit.
Virginia’s Republican legislators asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to uphold the state Supreme Court’s decision invalidating a constitutional amendment that would have allowed the General Assembly to draw a new congressional map for the 2026 elections.
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's complaint seeking Arizona's statewide voter registration list, ruling the database is not a document the Civil Rights Act of 1960 requires states to preserve.
Virginia is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to override a state court decision that struck down a congressional map, arguing the ruling violated federal law and threatened the 2026 elections.
A federal judge on Monday dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit seeking Arizona's statewide voter registration list, ruling that the Civil Rights Act of 1960 does not authorize the government to compel states to produce the databases.
The Supreme Court vacated a lower-court injunction blocking Alabama’s 2023 congressional map, sending the case back for review in light of its recent ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, warning the order would cause c...
A federal judge in Arizona ruled that the state's voter registration database is not a protected "record" under the Civil Rights Act of 1960, dismissing the Justice Department's lawsuit to compel its production.
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit against Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, ruling that the federal government cannot compel the state to produce its statewide voter registration list under the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
Randy Flowers, an independent candidate for Congress in Illinois’s 17th District, cannot bypass the state’s signature requirements to appear on the general election ballot.
Days after the justices vacated Louisiana's congressional map, Alabama is pressing the court to let it sidestep a two-majority-Black-district order before its primary.
Plaintiffs in Tennessee argue that the state’s mid-decade congressional redistricting and election calendar changes violate voters’ fundamental right to vote and burden First Amendment associational rights, seeking an emergency injunction to halt the new ma...
The General Assembly cast its first vote on a proposed constitutional amendment after more than 1.3 million Virginians had already voted — a sequence the court held Article XII, Section 1 flatly forbids.
The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, forcing a redraw before the 2026 elections and sparking heated dissent over the judiciary’s role in redistricting.
The Supreme Court ruled that plaintiffs must prove intentional racial discrimination to establish liability under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting claims based solely on disparate impact.
A legal advocacy group is asking a federal court to halt a Wisconsin law it says bars non-residents from gathering nomination signatures — with less than four weeks left in the collection window.
A federal judge in Phoenix ruled that Arizona's statewide voter registration list is not the kind of document Congress required states to preserve — and hand over — under a 1960 civil rights law.
The ruling updates the legal framework that has governed minority voting rights claims for four decades, holding that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act imposes liability only when circumstances give rise to a strong inference of intentional racial discrimi...
The ruling is the latest in a string of defeats for the Justice Department's nationwide campaign to force states to hand over their statewide voter registration databases under a 1960 civil rights law.
A federal judge refused to rewrite Colorado's ballot-mailing timeline weeks before the state's statewide voter registration system enters a coding blackout.
A 1937 election-law provision shielding the contents of ballot boxes and voting machines does not cover the tabulator reports modern voting systems generate, the court held.