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Since the Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision removed the Section 4(b) coverage formula that triggered federal preclearance, states have enacted scores of new voting restrictions and...
The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act passed the House on January 13, 2022, by , and failed in the Senate when a cloture motion on January 19, 2022, fell , leaving the bill without the 60 votes neede...
The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act (often discussed alongside the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act) repeatedly stalled in the Senate because it could not overcome the 60‑vote threshold ...
The available reporting shows that the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act (the combined package including the Freedom to Vote Act) did not receive Republican support when it was brought up in the Sena...
Shelby County v. Holder struck down Section 4(b)’s coverage formula, effectively disabling the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance mechanism in Section 5 and shifting enforcement from automatic federal o...
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) still provides tools — primarily Section 2 litigation and Department of Justice enforcement — that can challenge restrictive voting laws, but reestablishing nationwide prec...