Virginia, the Old Confederacy’s Heart, Becomes a Voting Rights Bastion
The state’s voting rights act is being signed into law by a governor whose career was nearly derailed by a blackface scandal in 2019. Since...
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Georgia Law Kicks Off Partisan Battle Over Voting Rights
Mr. Kemp on Friday pushed back at Mr. Biden’s criticism, saying, “There is nothing ‘Jim Crow’ about requiring a photo or state-issued ID to vote...
Democrats Begin Push for Biggest Expansion of Voting Since 1960s
Democrats began pushing on Wednesday for the most substantial expansion of voting rights in a half-century, laying the groundwork in the Senate for what would...
In Georgia, Republicans Take Aim at Role of Black Churches in Elections
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Sundays are always special at the St. Philip Monumental A.M.E. church. But in October, the pews are often more packed, the sermon...
House Set to Pass Landmark Voting Rights Bill
Study after study, including by Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department, has concluded no widespread fraud exists. “In this country, if the people who win elections...
Supreme Court Case Could Limit Options to Fight Republican Voting Restrictions
WASHINGTON — There was not much subtlety to the Republicans’ argument to the Supreme Court on Tuesday for allowing laws that effectively limit voting access...
The Brewing Voting Rights Clash
The 2020 election was a wild one. And under the strange circumstances, Republicans wound up turning against one another on an issue that tends to...
Supreme Court Seems Ready to Sustain Arizona Voting Limits
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed poised on Tuesday to uphold two Arizona voting restrictions, one requiring election officials to discard ballots cast at the...
A Supreme Court Test for What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act
But Paul M. Smith, a lawyer with the Campaign Legal Center, which submitted a brief supporting the challengers, said lower courts had worked out a...
Georgia Republicans Deliver Persistent Message: Fear the Democrats
NORCROSS, Ga. — The biggest applause lines in Senator Kelly Loeffler’s stump speech are not about Ms. Loeffler at all. When the crowd is most...