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News Articles: Voting Rights Act

An election worker scans an envelope that holds a voting machine memory card at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Atlanta.

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Justice Department sues Georgia county, saying elections violate rights of Black voters

The U.S. Justice Department is suing a Georgia county, alleging that its method of electing county commissioners violates the rights of Black voters. The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court asks a judge to stop Houston County from continuing to use countywide elections for each of its five commission seats.

January 17, 2025
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The U.S. Supreme Court

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The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Louisiana's redistricting plan

A federal district court ruled that the new map drawn by the state legislature violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the Black vote. A group of conservatives challenged the legislature's map.

May 16, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
Georgia state Rep. Mack Jackson, D-Sandersville, looks at a map of proposed state House districts before a House hearing, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. State lawmakers were ordered to redraw Georgia's legislative and congressional districts after a federal judge ruled some illegally diluted Black voting strength. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

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Plaintiffs in a Georgia redistricting case are asking a judge to reject new Republican-proposed maps

The people who sued to overturn Georgia's congressional and legislative districts are attacking plans that Republican state lawmakers claim cure illegal dilution of Black votes while preserving GOP power.

December 13, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., speaks during a rally near Capitol Hill in Washington on June 8, 2022. Georgia Republicans on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, proposed to radically transform McBath's current district for the second time in two years during a special legislative session to redraw congressional and legislative maps.

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Georgia lawmakers OK U.S. House map that adds Black districts but keeps GOP advantage

State Republicans redrew Georgia's congressional map to add court-ordered majority-Black districts in a way that didn't add Democratic seats.

December 07, 2023
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  • Stephen Fowler
The Georgia Congressional Black Caucus holds a new conference to protest the Republican redistricting maps presented during the Georgia General Assembly Special Session.

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Black caucus, Democrats react to passage of Republican-drawn district and congressional maps

Georgia’s special legislative session to redistrict voting maps could wrap up the process before the court-imposed deadline. 

December 06, 2023
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  • Donna Lowry
Four Black Democrats vote against a proposed congressional redistricting plan in a Georgia Senate committee, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023 at the state Capitol in Atlanta. Opponents of the plan argue it illegally breaks up a majority nonwhite district currently represented by Democratic U.S. Rep Lucy McBath.

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In GOP's proposed Georgia congressional map, a key question is which voters are legally protected

Georgia Republicans are advancing a proposed congressional map that maintains their party's 9-5 majority in the state's congressional delegation. A Senate committee voted 7- 4 along party lines on Monday to send the map to the state Senate for more debate.

December 04, 2023
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  • Associated Press
The first voters under Georgia's newly passed voting rules in the East Macon 3 precinct in Macon, Ga., cast their ballots on Tuesday.⁠

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A judge must now decide if Georgia voting districts are racially discriminatory after a trial ended

A trial challenging voting district maps in Georgia has concluded, leaving a decision in the hands of a federal judge. A lawyer for the state said in closing arguments Thursday that court intervention on behalf of Black voters isn't needed. Plaintiffs say Black voters are still fighting opposition from white voters and need federal help to get a fair shot.

September 15, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to postpone the creation of a new congressional map while it pursues further appeal.

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Alabama asks Supreme Court to aid a delay after June loss in voting case

Alabama is once again asking the Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional districts. In essence, the state is fighting a court order that the high court upheld just months ago.

September 12, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
 African Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop Reginald Jackson announces a boycott of Coca-Cola Co. products outside the Georgia Capitol on March 25, 2021 in Atlanta.

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Judge refuses to toss discrimination lawsuits over Georgia voting districts

A judge has refused to dismiss lawsuits alleging Georgia's congressional and legislative districts illegally discriminate against Black voters. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled Monday that he could only decide disputes over the facts of the cases and the credibility of the witnesses after a full trial.

July 18, 2023
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  • Associated Press
The setting sun illuminates the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 10.

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Supreme Court unexpectedly upholds provision prohibiting racial gerrymandering

The Supreme Court has ruled against Alabama's defense of an electoral map drawn by the state's Republican-dominated legislature. Black voters had challenged the law as racially discriminatory.

June 10, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. As the country awaits a Supreme Court decision on whether one of those laws, the Voting Rights Act, will be reinforced or further eroded, a small, vanishing group who lived at the epicenter of the struggle for voting rights six decades ago is reflecting on the times and their struggles, and why it was worth it.

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Voices from the violent civil rights era see attacks on voting rights as part of ongoing struggle

People at the epicenter of the fight for voting rights six decades ago are reflecting on the times and their struggles. They're certain their struggles were worth it.

June 09, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Civil Rights icon Andrew Young speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, May 18, 2023, in Atlanta. Young, one of the last surviving members of Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle, recalled the journey to the signing of the Voting Rights Act as an arduous one, often marked by violence and bloodshed.

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Andrew Young was at Martin Luther King's side throughout often violent struggle for civil rights

Andrew Young, one of the last surviving members of Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle, recalls the journey to the signing of the Voting Rights Act as an arduous one, often marked by violence and bloodshed. Now 91, Young says voting rights have always been the vehicle for equality and notes that progress has never happened in a straight line.

June 09, 2023
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  • Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court has about four weeks left to release opinions for more than two dozen cases it heard this term.

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Here are the major Supreme Court decisions we're still waiting for this term

The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue opinions in 27 cases that it heard this term, and has about four weeks left to release them. Here are the major cases NPR is watching.

June 06, 2023
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  • Washington Desk
Demonstrators Gwendolyn Perrette, left, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Miriam Billanuava, of Birmingham, Ala., chant with others outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., March 8, 2013.

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Supreme Court opened the door to states' voting restrictions. Now a new ruling could widen them.

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.

June 06, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Coretta Scott King, center, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., presents the Martin Luther King Jr. Non-Violent Peace to President Jimmy Carter at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Jan. 14, 1979. First lady Rosalyn Carter stands with them at the podium.

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The Carters and the Kings formed an alliance for race relations though Jimmy and Martin never met

Former President Jimmy Carter and fellow Georgian Martin Luther King Jr. never met during all their time in Atlanta. But the Rev. Bernice King tells The Associated Press that Carter has been a “courageous” and “principled” figure who built on her father’s work, advancing the King family's vision of racial equality and human rights. 

June 05, 2023
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