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

The D.C. Board of Elections (BOE) will be hosting a Special Election this summer for Ward 8 Councilmember, following Trayon White’s expulsion from the D.C.

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.

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 It would have repealed the ...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 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 ...

The poll randomly sampled more than 1,000 adults living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia ... government-issued photo identification to vote, with 18% opposed. That includes 95% ...

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 ...

Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed a slew of lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to roll back birthright citizenship on Tuesday in an early bid by his opponents to ...

“And despite the Constitution’s guarantee of their citizenship, they will lose their rights to participate in the economic and civic life of their own country—to work, vote, serve on ...