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Last Wednesday, we observed the 60th anniversary of when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...
August 2025 marks 65 years since the Voting Rights Act came into law and changed the course of history in communities of interest like tribes. For the first time, we had federal protections that ...
In 2024 the Turtle Mountain Band and the Spirit Lake Tribe formed a joint district for the first time. The future of the ...
The state of North Dakota urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let it use its preferred legislative district map after an ...
Jamie Azure, chair of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, speaks July 10, 2025, in Belcourt during a visit from North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong. (Photo provided by Office of the Governor)BISMARCK, ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a lower-court ruling in a redistricting dispute in North Dakota that would gut a landmark federal civil rights law for millions of people. The justices indicated ...
"This Court has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the Voting Rights Act over the last couple of decades," a voting rights ...
Native American News Appeals court rules against North Dakota tribes in voting rights case that could go to Supreme Court Published: Jul. 07, 2025, 12:10 p.m.
It’s the latest ruling from the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, saying only the government can bring lawsuits ...
Supreme Court blocks North Dakota redistricting ruling that would gut key part of Voting Rights Act The case could be argued as early as 2026 and decided by next summer.
The case has drawn national interest because of a 2-1 ruling issued in May by a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that erased a path through the federal Voting Rights Act ...