WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have required 51 votes to pass ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday appeared poised to significantly weaken a key Voting Rights Act provision that prohibits states from diluting the power of minority voters — a ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether to keep a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half-century, ...