BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal appeals court denied a request on Friday to delay a judge’s decision that North Dakota’s legislative map violates the Voting Rights Act in diluting the voting strength of two Native American tribes.

Source: https://halifax.citynews.ca/2023/12/15/ap-news-in-brief-at-1204-a-m-est-487/

Brown paved the way for the Civil Rights Act a decade later, and the Voting Rights Act just after that.

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/commentary/hicks-the-briggs-plaintiffs-and-waring-deserve-credit-for-brown/article_d45c54d4-fb3d-11ed-adf7-bb1488921606.html

Congress cannot alter Shelby County's constitutional ruling, but it can revitalize the Voting Rights Act by writing a new coverage formula and setting aside Brnovich's cramped construction of the Voting Rights Act's result test.

Source: https://www.rawstory.com/don-bacon-george-santos/

"Following the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, which happened in 2013, Texas no longer had to submit changes to its voting rules to the federal government for oversight.

Source: https://abc13.com/voting-rights-equity-1619-project-league-of-women-voters-in-houston/13305102/

He also specifically noted the John Robert Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would expand access to the ballot box for those that have been historically disenfranchised by onerous voter ID laws.

Source: https://www.brooklynpaper.com/hakeem-jeffries-inaugural-address-politics/

If a decision handed down by a conservative federal appeals court last month is allowed to stand, it will gut what remains of one of the most important federal laws enacted in my lifetime, the Voting Rights Act.

Source: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/12/03/opinion/outlandish-ruling-eviscerate-landmark-voting-rights-act/

Instead, President Richard Nixon extended the Voting Rights Act for five more years.

Source: https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/biden-to-visit-selma-ala-for-voting-rights-anniversary/article_e6f12b7e-7d4a-557c-99f2-89bb47541bea.html

“It should be the Voting Rights Act, the California Constitution and the U.S. Constitution.”

Source: https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/02/florida-city-highlights-conflicts-over-local-gerrymandering/

Louisiana is among states still wrangling over congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court in June ruled that Alabama had violated the Voting Rights Act.

Source: https://www.americanpress.com/2023/11/10/update-louisiana-lawmakers-have-until-jan-15-to-enact-new-congressional-map-court-says/

Now the California Voting Rights Act requires local non-partisan elections be conducted by an alternative method other than “at-large” elections (usually by imposition of district elections).

Source: https://calcoastnews.com/2023/08/court-paves-the-way-for-slo-city-council-to-create-single-seat-districts/

Now the court majority has found that the Voting Rights Act allowed them to look into effect, so long as it did not impose strict proportionality.

Source: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/01/opinion/opinion-contributor/from-russia-to-the-supreme-court-june-records-historic-events/

One recent opinion that generated among court watchers was a June 8 ruling that held violated the Voting Rights Act by not forming a second black-majority district during its previous reapportionment process.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/wex/6-3-supreme-court-decides-fewer-cases-along-ideological-lines/article_10560b74-5fd3-5d57-9628-4c2a6da48f75.html

Quigley said that this kind of system was “the rule for decades” in the South until the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965 and formally prohibited arbitrary rules like poll taxes and literacy tests designed to prevent African Americans from voting.

Source: https://spokesman-recorder.com/2023/02/13/mississippi-lawmakers-seek-return-to-jim-crow-with-separate-white-system-of-justice/

RCV would also help ensure that all Connecticut communities can better engage their voters, which has been a top legislative priority in our state as evidenced by the recent passage of Early Voting and the CT Voting Rights Act.

Source: https://www.courant.com/2023/06/27/monte-frank-connecticut-would-have-led-by-example-with-ranked-choice-voting-bill/

Several plaintiffs, associated with the Democratic Party, sued, claiming that the map violates the rights of minority voters under the Court’s past interpretations of the Voting Rights Act.

Source: https://www.city-journal.org/is-supreme-court-out-of-step-with-public-opinion

The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) helped to break Jim Crow.

Source: https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/us/editorial-roundup-united-states/article_551f818c-fd90-5f08-a57e-5497ce92a63f.html

The current Republican Party – buttressed by a tractable, far-right Supreme Court — has succeeded in reviving and expanding racial inequality and circumventing (with SCOTUS approval) the Voting Rights Act.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/13/capitol-charades/

The lawsuit calls out those same Senate districts as “an open defiance of the requirements of the Voting Rights Act.”

Source: https://ncnewsline.com/2023/12/19/voting-rights-groups-file-sweeping-lawsuit-against-nc-redistricting-plans/

The U.S. Voting Rights Act does allow states to set registration deadlines up to 30 days before a presidential election.

Source: https://www.mymcmurray.com/2023/10/03/north-carolina-retiree-group-sues-to-block-30-day-voter-residency-requirement/

U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky of Little Rock issued a ruling that declared the plaintiffs — the NAACP and the Arkansas Public Policy Panel, a local advocacy group — had no right to sue under the Voting Rights Act.

Source: https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/12/11/arkansas-plaintiffs-asks-8th-circuit-to-rehear-voting-rights-case-with-national-consequences