Louisiana

Congress has to restore and modernize the Voting Rights Act with protections responsive to contemporary suppression tactics.

While the MAGA reparations fund has been cancelled, the protection from the IRS that Donald Trump built into his "deal" is still on the table.

After Calvin Duncan was elected to be Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court, Louisiana’s state legislature hastily moved to eliminate the office.

Louisiana Gov. postponed a primary election already in progress to implement a redistricting effort that disenfranchises Black voters.

Black youth are being placed at the center of a civil rights fight, and their bodies, choices, futures, and labor are being asked to carry the moral weight of a nation’s failure.

The South Carolina House passed a new map eliminating the district held by Rep. James Clyburn, but the map failed twice in the state Senate.

While speaking at an American Law Institute conference, Brown said that the Voting Rights Act ruling only hurts trust in the Supreme Court.

In this week’s Le[e]gal Brief, attorney Lee Merritt outlines what can be done to protect Black voting rights after the Callais decision.

As a result of the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act, several southern states have rushed to disenfranchise Black voters. 

If one has to declare that "it's not my fault" while defending the thing they're trying to distance themselves from, that thing is probably indefensible.

Louisiana state Senator Jay Morris is accused of making the racist statement during a contentious redistricting hearing on May 8.

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court has essentially authorized the South to disenfranchise Black voters with Jim Crow maps.