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The government shutdown is now the third-longest funding lapse in modern history, and the Senate won't meet until Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped ...

Not since the pro-slavery court before the Civil War has a Supreme Court been as ill-suited as the Roberts court that opens a ...

Janai Nelson, a longtime civil rights attorney, was the woman who argued on behalf of Black voters and what is left of the ...

In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the conservative majority signaled it might prohibit using race as a factor in creating election districts. Resulting redistricting could let states cement ...

It is key to the longtime objectives supported by and benefiting the billionaires who funded the court-capture machine.

On Friday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of its birthright citizenship ...

The Supreme Court hears a Louisiana redistricting case that could reshape the Voting Rights Act and impact congressional maps ...