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For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and ...

A Virginia man who says he almost had to sacrifice his constitutional right to vote because of a disability is on a mission to prevent that from happening to anyone ever again. When Tate Jordan went ...

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The court struck down the voting map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in a move that could make it harder for lawmakers to create majority-minority voting districts. By Abbie VanSickle ...

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Louisiana v. Callais, much attention has been paid to its impact on the midterms and the partisan gerrymandering surge we can expect in the ...

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