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Topic: Voting Rights Act

March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery; among those pictured are, front row, politician and civil rights activist John Lewis (1940 – 2020), Reverend Ralph Abernathy (1926 - 1990), Ruth Harris Bunche (1906 - 1988), Nobel Prize-winning political scientist and diplomat Ralph Bunche (1904 - 1971), activist Hosea Williams (1926 – 2000 right carrying child). (Photo by William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Conservatives’ war against civil rights

Russell Payne
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Dec. 15, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump's midterm playbook

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union on Feb. 4, 2020. (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

John Roberts betrayed America for Trump

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Aug. 22, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's 2020 rants are really about 2026

Heather Digby Parton
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded sensitive voting information from Minnesota and nearly two dozen other states. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

DOJ to send election monitors to NJ, CA

CK Smith
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

John Roberts is dismantling America

David Daley
The US Supreme Court is seen in Washington DC on May 25, 2023. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

This Supreme Court case could upend DC

Sam D. Hayes - The Conversation
Steve Bannon, former advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives for a hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 11, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The GOP plot to rig a House majority

Russell Payne
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Thousands are backed up and waiting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 60th anniversary of events that occurred on the bridge iin Selma, Alabama in 1965. These marchers came to Selma today, Sunday, March 09, 2025. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Black voters' power hangs in the balance

Tatyana Tandanpolie
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

How John Roberts gutted voting rights

David Daley
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives for the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, would become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court if confirmed. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

KBJ: A lone SCOTUS dissenter brings hope

Henry Chandonnet
US Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Expert: SCOTUS wrongly awarded GOP House

Tatyana Tandanpolie
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Another SCOTUS attack on voting rights

Igor Derysh
Brett Kavanaugh | Opponents to teaching Critical Race Theory are in attendance as the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board discusses a proposed resolution to ban it from being taught in schools. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS joins the GOP racist insurrection

Amanda Marcotte
Texas Capitol (Cotorreando/Getty Images)

We broke the law: Texas GOP official

Brett Bachman
Lyndon B. Johnson with the 6th and 7th grade students in the class he taught in 1928 and 1929. Cotulla, Texas. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The president who taught migrant youths

Matthew Rozsa
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US President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Getty Images/Salon)

SCOTUS gives Trump's Big Lie a boost

Jon Skolnik
Amy Coney Barret and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supreme Court wishy-washy on AZ voting

Jon Skolnik
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Gerrymandering: Now even more racist

Igor Derysh
Voting booths in polling place (Getty Images/Hill Street Studios)

What happened to the Voting Rights Act?

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
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Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The case of Biden versus Trump

John E. Finn - The Conversation
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Texas cut voting sites in minority areas

Igor Derysh
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) speaks to the media ahead of the House voting on the H.R. 4, The Voting Rights Advancement Act, on December 6, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

House passes "historic" bill

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
A view of the Mississippi State Capitol on April 5, 2018 in Jackson, Mississippi. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) (Brendan Mialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Judge won't block Jim Crow-era rules

Gideon Cohn-Postar - The Conversation
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