Salim Adofo has announced that he is running to fill the District of Columbia Council seat for Ward 8 - which is the very one ...

Supporters of abortion rights in Virginia reached a significant milestone this week as a proposed constitutional amendment ...

Federal prosecutors in Washington asked a judge to drop charges against Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, after several ...

The SAVE Act aims to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of US citizenship for voting ...

Though MacArthur Cotton was critical of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 82-year-old is even more critical of where things stand with the legislation now.

The Government Administration and Elections Committee heard testimony during a lengthy public hearing Friday on, among other ...

This article was updated on Feb. 6 at 2:04 p.m. Shortly after being sworn into office on Jan. 20 for a second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship – the ...

Outside the Beltway, support for D.C. statehood has always been sparse. Only 16 states ratified the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment of 1978 before it expired. It would have repealed the ...

The lawsuit alleges that the order is in violation of the 14th Amendment of the United ... Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaiʻi, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico ...

The District of Columbia's Voting Rights Amendment of 1978 failed to achieve the required ratification in other states. The D.C. Voting Rights Act of 2009 was unable to pass. The tide turned in ...

Legal precedent has long interpreted the amendment ... from exercising rights protected by law,” said Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, after three of the ...

and you’ll even get $20 reward after your first purchase Virginia’s Democratic-led Senate on Tuesday passed constitutional amendments on abortion and voting rights that were quickly blasted by ...