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ATLANTA — Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press forward with a similar law

A U.S. Supreme Court decision a decade ago that tossed out the heart of the Voting Rights...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision a decade ago that tossed out the heart of the Voting Rights Act continues to reverberate across the country. Republican-led states continue to pass voting restrictions that, in several cases, would have been subject to federal review had the court left the provision intact. The conservative-leaning court has continued to take other cases challenging elements of the landmark 1965 law. The justices are expected to rule in the coming weeks in a case out of Alabama that...

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Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press forward with a similar law that had been on hold.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision a decade ago that tossed out the heart of the Voting Rights Act continues to reverberate across the country

Justices are expected to rule another case out of Alabama that could make it much more difficult for minority groups to sue over gerrymandered political maps.

The justices are expected to rule in the coming weeks in another case out of Alabama that could make it much more difficult for minority groups to sue over...

The justices are expected to rule in the coming weeks in another case out of Alabama that could make it much more difficult for minority groups to sue over...

The justices are expected to rule in the coming weeks in another case out of Alabama that could make it much more difficult for minority groups to sue over...