voting rights

Denying Republicans a quorum to enact voting restrictions will cost Texas Democrats north of $1 million, according to the state legislator leading the fundraising effort

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Amazon, Starbucks and Pepsi are among the companies that signed on to a letter calling on Congress to pass legislation that would expand the Voting Rights Act.

President Joe Biden delivered his speech in Philadelphia amid a push in many states to enact changes that have been described as vote suppression measures.

President Joe Biden is declaring that preserving voting rights is “a test of our time” as he urges passage of federal legislation to combat efforts by Republican-led state legislatures to restrict access to ballots

Vice President Harris met with Texas Democratic lawmakers in Washington, D.C. Tuesday to thank them for their efforts to block a Republican-backed restrictive voting rights bill.

President Joe Biden gave a speech about voting rights from Philadelphia and the actions his administration is taking to protect the right to vote.

The move is the first federal enforcement action around the spate of Republican-led laws that impose limits on voting in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s election loss.

The Democrats’ expansive elections and voting bill is all but certain to be rejected in a key Senate test vote

In a key Senate vote, Republicans voted to block debate on the For the People Act, an elections and voting bill from Democratic legislators.

Democrats and Republicans are fighting furiously over an issue that rarely sways elections, and that’s the mechanics of voting

A Supreme Court decision siding with a religious adoption agency in a case about LGBTQ rights comes against a bigger cultural war playing out in the states.

The Senate will take a key vote next week on a sweeping rewrite of voting and election law, setting up a dramatic test of Democratic unity on a top priority that Republicans are vowing to block

Merrick Garland said the Justice Department will swiftly increase its resources dedicated to enforcing voting rights protections.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that the Department of Justice will double the enforcement staff of its civil rights division in order to better protect the right to vote.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he plans to double the number of staff within the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division dedicated to protecting voting rights. “There are plenty of things up for debate in America, but the right of all eligible Americans to vote is not one of them,” Garland said. For more on this story, go...

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President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris will lead the administration’s push to protect voting rights as federal election reform legislation faces steep hurdles in a closely divided Senate.

Republicans in the Senate are making an expansive case against sweeping voting and election legislation from Democrats