Supreme Court Justice Pauses Ruling Weakening Voting Rights Act

FIRST PERSON: I knew voting rights icons growing up in rural Georgia, but didn’t realize it at the time

I had not yet been born in 1948, a year fraught with challenges to the voting potential of Black Americans. Just three years after the United States and its allies had declared victory over fascism and ended World War II, Black Americans were ready to wage a domestic war against racism.  That year was one of martyrdom and heroism. And I did not know until five years ago that my hometown, Conyers, Georgia, was among the many places in the old Con…

Conservative justice hits brakes on major ruling that kneecapped voting rights

A conservative Supreme Court Justice put a pause on a lower court ruling that would have blocked people in some states from suing over voter discrimination based on race. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Brett Kavanaugh issued an administrative stay as part of an appeal from Native Americ...

Supreme Court justice pauses ruling weakening Voting Rights Act

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh paused a ruling that bars individuals in some Midwestern states from filing lawsuits claiming that voting laws discriminate on the basis of race.