The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to ...

The Justice Department sued California Secretary of State Shirley Weber for failing to hand over the state's voter rolls.

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber take questions after announcing a lawsuit to protect voter rights in April 2024. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) The U.S.

The Supreme Court appears ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that's helped root out racial discrimination in ...

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the ...

Court-ordered changes in redistricting policy is part of a conservative movement to roll back civil rights legislation create ...

The Trump administration has been increasingly focused on an effort to bolster President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. More than 30 states have received requests for information. By ...

The conservative justices signaled they could undercut the law's Section 2, which bars voting maps that would result in ...

In 2013, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in a case known as Shelby v. Holder that removed the preclearance ...

The Civil Rights Division on Tuesday, September 30th filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department due ...

The Department of Justice is suing six states for not providing all the voter registration information they've requested, an escalation of the Trump administration's effort to inspect voter rolls that ...