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White House reportedly weighing leadership changes at DOJ affecting Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Civil Rights Division head Harmeet Dhillon
Sources told CBS News that the White House is likely to make further leadership changes at the Department of Justice that would affect Associate Attorney General Sta...
Tennessee Republican-led redistricting splits majority-Black Memphis across three congressional districts, prompting lawsuits and debate over representation
Tennessee Republican lawmakers approved a new congressional map in a special legislative session that redraws districts statewide. The redistricting splits majority-...
Louisiana lawmakers advance new congressional map that reduces majority-Black districts to one and creates a 5–1 Republican-leaning split
Following a Supreme Court ruling that struck down Louisiana's 2021 congressional map for overemphasizing compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Louisian...
Tennessee legislature approves new congressional map targeting Memphis' majority-Black 9th District; measure advances to governor amid protests
Tennessee's Republican-controlled legislature approved a new congressional map that would redraw districts in a way that targets the state's 9th Congressional Distri...
Activists travel by bus to Montgomery for voting-rights rally in response to Supreme Court decision on race-conscious redistricting
Several dozen activists traveled by bus from Atlanta and Aiken, S.C., to Montgomery, Alabama, on May 16, 2026, to take part in the "All Roads Lead to the South" rall...
Supreme Court limits use of race in congressional redistricting, narrowing application of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana case
The article reports on a U.S. Supreme Court decision that limits the use of race in congressional redistricting and narrows how the Voting Rights Act (VRA) can be ap...
Supreme Court to hear St. Mary Catholic Parish’s challenge after Colorado excluded its preschools from state universal preschool program
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, a challenge from the Archdiocese of Denver after Colorado excluded its Catholic preschools fro...