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Clarence Thomas sat silent for years before he said a word. The Court’s newest justice came out swinging at her first hearing.

No new justice in years has started a term quite like Jackson, as Tuesday's arguments over a Voting Rights Act challenge to Alabama's redistricting maps showed.

The rights of Black voters in Alabama could be diluted based on the outcome of a voting rights case before the U.S. Supreme Court

Takeaways from the Supreme Court's hearing on what the Voting Rights Act means for redistricting

Alabama defended its redrawn electoral map before the Supreme Court on Oct. 4, arguing that the federal Voting ...

The Supreme Court began its new term this week and the newly appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came out swinging.

Voting Rights Act, U.S. legislation (August 6, 1965) that aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States. Considered among the most comprehensive pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) significantly widened the franchise. It continued to provide far-reaching protection of minority voting rights...

Jan Willem van Hofwege // Shutterstock Passing the U.S. citizenship test is a vital step toward becoming an American citizen. To pass the civics portion of the test, an applicant must correctly answer six of up to 10 oral U.S. history and government-r...

Citizenship should mean something, especially at the ballot box. This year, New York City passed a law that allows foreigners to cast ballots in its municipal elections.

Citizenship should mean something, especially at the ballot box. This year, New York City passed a law that allows foreigners to cast ballots in its municipal elections.