Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

EXPLAINED: Nina perales | Rare Historical Photos

How the Voting Rights Act reshaped Texas’ electoral maps by empowering voters, candidates of color

The Supreme Court weakened Section 2, the linchpin of the 1965 civil rights legislation that prohibits diluting the electoral power of voters of color. But the statute’s fingerprints can be seen all over Texas’ maps.

The Texas Tribune

DOJ drops fight against Texas political maps as Trump administration retreats from voting rights cases

The Biden administration had challenged a Republican-led redistricting plan that diluted the political power of minorities. Other legal challenges will continue.

The Texas Tribune

Trump supporter kicked off voter rolls

Mary Howard-Elley's saga shows how tough it can be for eligible voters to get reinstated

Salon

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Dreamers Seek to Keep DACA Alive in Court As Republicans go on Offense

The future of the program is unclear as a six-year-long court battle continues

Latin Times

‘Civil and Human Rights Disaster’: Texas Wants to Seize Immigration Authority from Feds

House Bill 4, which an expert called a "civil and human rights disaster," could turn police into border enforcers—with new unchecked power.

Texas Observer

Ten years of a crippled Voting Rights Act: how states make it harder to vote

In a 5-4 ruling in 2013, the supreme court weakened the Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for state legislatures to pass voter suppression laws

The Guardian - US

Where Texas redistricting lawsuits stand after U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Alabama case

The high court left intact a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act in a case many feared would go the other way. The decision’s importance in ongoing litigation over Texas’ political maps will largely be felt in what didn’t happen.

The Texas Tribune

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Supreme Court voting rights ruling stuns minority voters, who hope it expands their representation

This week’s Supreme Court decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional maps was seen by many minority lawmakers and voting rights activists as a stunning victory with the potential to become a major stepping stone for undoing gerrymandered political maps that dilute the political strength of communities of color

The Independent UK

DACA program's fate again before judge who ruled it illegal

A federal judge is scheduled to again decide the fate of a program that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to the United States as children

The Independent UK

TX uses lawsuits to attack voting rights

Texas is using redistricting lawsuits to wage its assault on voting protections

Salon

Take Back the Vote

We spoke with her about her career, the threat against voting rights in Texas, and the power of the law to protect access to the ballot.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Department of Justice

the US Department of Justice

184 stories

5th Circuit

152 stories

US Department of Justice

108 stories

Votebeat

75 stories

the Texas Legislature

68 stories

Common Cause

60 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.