Congressional Democrats Launch a New Strategy to Restore the Voting Rights Act

*You can call it the VRA 2.0. When the Supreme Court gutted section 5 of the Voting Rights Act I saw a bright side – that the gutting provided the […]

*Lot’s of developments this past week on the voting rights front: The 50th anniversary of the VRA and a Texas lawsuit that found strength in Section 2 of the Act […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco You knew the dark clouds were gathering last February when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that extending Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was […]

By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco This week, with Justice Scalia writing the majority opinion, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), rejected the Arizona state law, Prop 200, that required […]

Victor Landa, NewsTaco The U. S. Supreme Court will be handing down its decisions on two important civil rights cases soon, one possibly as soon as Monday, May 13. Both […]

By Adam Liptak, New York Times WASHINGTON — A central provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 may be in peril, judging from tough questioning on Wednesday from the Supreme Court’s more […]

Victor Landa, NewsTaco For all of the anticipation leading up to the Voting Rights challenge at the U. S. Supreme Court there are a couple of things that bubbled to […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco We circled today’s date on NewsTaco’s calendar several months ago. Today is the day that the U. S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) hears arguments in the case […]

By Nina Perales, Vice President of Litigation for MALDEF In the 2012 general election, an estimated ten percent of votes were cast by Latinos. The record high number was accompanied by media commentary […]

There’s a battle of historic proportions brewing around the issue of voting rights and the constitutional idea of one person, one vote. And I don’t exaggerate when I say that it’s of historic proportions. […]