June 08, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday held that Alabama redistricting maps violate the Voting Rights Act because they were drawn in a way that diluted the voting power of Black residents.
October 04, 2022
The Supreme Court was ablaze with debate Tuesday morning over whether the Voting Rights Act allows judges to consider race to remedy unequal representation, with newly confirmed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson making an impassioned "originalist" case that the Reconstruction Amendments did not mandate "race-blind" laws.
September 30, 2022
The reversal of constitutional abortion protections last term has court watchers wondering: Is affirmative action next? But the lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina are far from the only blockbusters on the docket in what is likely to be another landslide term for conservatives. Here, Law360 breaks down five cases to watch.
September 29, 2022
Alabama's new congressional map is a "textbook" example of racial discrimination barred by the Voting Rights Act, former Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday, days before the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that has piqued the interest of everyone from tribal advocates to the American Bar Association.
August 25, 2022
Alabama election officials fired back against several groups, including the state's NAACP chapter, that say its new congressional map is racially discriminatory, arguing that federal law does not require two of their seven electoral districts to be majority-Black.
July 21, 2022
The National Congress of American Indians has told the U.S. Supreme Court that racial discrimination against Native Americans is still very much alive and that consideration of race is necessary in establishing districts that comply with the Voting Rights Act.