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Today — 17 October 2025Main stream

Parties Brace for a Political Future Without the Voting Rights Act

17 October 2025 at 05:54
After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to reckon with an uncertain future.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Some Democrats expressed alarmed at the new political reality that could be ushered in by the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act.
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Will the Supreme Court Use a Louisiana Case to Gut the Voting Rights Act?

14 October 2025 at 17:01
The justices have shown a willingness to chip away at the landmark civil rights legislation. A Louisiana case could unravel much of its remaining power.

© Yoichi Okamoto/Lyndon B. Johnson Library

President Lyndon B. Johnson with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after signing the Voting Rights Act in August 1965. Since then, the law has served to protect the voting power of Black Americans.

His Execution Is Days Away. A Detective Says He’s Innocent.

What happens when the science that sends a man to death row is debunked? Robert Roberson spent over 20 years on death row for his daughter’s death, but new evidence points to a different cause. Without intervention from Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, Roberson’s execution is scheduled for Oct. 16.
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