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 ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — 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 ...

Section 1983 stems from the Ku Klux Klan Act that Congress passed after the Civil War to protect Black people in the South from white supremacist violence, and voting rights advocates have considered ...