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The appeals court found only the federal government, not private citizens or organizations, can sue over voting rules that are allegedly racially discriminatory.

Detroit City Council held a meeting last week to discuss the proposed single-member district options, one of which will be adopted in January.

This blog post was co-authored by Martha Kinsella, former senior counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. It was originally published in the blog STAT on November 10, 2023. By Jacob Carter and Martha Kinsella In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey bro

The third dean candidate for the School of Law, Johanna Kalb, will hold an open forum for the campus community at 3 p.m. today in the E.J. Ball Courtroom in the School of Law.

This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Eva Bonilla grows furious when she thinks about how Latino…

Four candidates for the dean of the School of Law — Elizabeth Weeks, Michael Higdon, Johanna Kalb and Ned Snow — will hold open forums on Oct. 23, Oct. 26, Oct. 30 and Nov. 2, respectively.

Conspiracy theorists seem to have a new strategy for spreading misinformation about voting.

Through new and expansive assertions of privilege, Republican legislatures around the country are shielding their work on allegedly discriminatory voting maps to prevent the public from finding out how and why they made their decisions.

As GOP draws new NC district maps, hope for a ‘dummymander’ | Opinion

Gov. Newsom vetoed the most sweeping bill to require cities and counties to create independent redistricting commissions. He cited budget concerns, but the bill’s supporters aren’t convinced.