Republicans in Congress and state legislatures are charging forward with plans to require Americans to prove they are ...

Former Congressman G.K. Butterfield testified Monday that he performed considerably worse in largely white precincts than he ...

The flooding will continue. The only difference is people will not have to be rescued. Those who needed to be rescued caused ...

The lawsuit was brought by residents of the town of Newburgh who claimed its at-large election system diluted the vote of ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 tackled voter suppression in the United States. While it significantly increased the registration of Black voters, it was not without controversy.

A New York appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling striking down a state law that prohibits local governments from ...

They upheld the constitutionality of the New York John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act (NYVRA), reversing an earlier decision that had struck down the law. Attorney General Letitia James announced the ...

A state appellate court on Thursday unanimously reinstated New York's John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2022, a law that prohibits "vote dilution" actions by municipalities. In a ruling penned by ...

The ruling affirms the law’s prohibition on vote dilution and sends the case back to a lower court to assess whether the Town of Newburgh’s election process violated the NYVRA. James has been a strong ...

NY's John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act upheld in court against challenges to its provisions against racially discriminatory vote dilution.

On January 30, 2025, the Appellate Division Second Department handed down a decision regarding the constitutionality of the ...