Using redrawn maps that were once called discriminatory by a federal judge, Galveston County is now controlled entirely by ...

Former President Donald Trump clinched the presidency against Vice President Kamala Harris early Wednesday morning. Hours earlier, he had delivered a speech touting his campaign's success. As of 11 a.

Monday's decision puts the spotlight back on an enforcement provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act, Section 2. While Louisiana's majority-Black District 6 will stand for Tuesday's election, the ...

"Without this Court's intervention, the State will be sued again no matter what it does," Louisiana Solicitor General J.

In Milligan, Alabama effectively asked the Supreme Court to abandon the legal framework governing racial gerrymandering cases brought under the Voting Rights Act, which the Court first announced in ...

Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su and other top officials at the Labor Department have been criss-crossing the country to promote the administration’s record.

For some the spotlight was intolerable. In October, a three-judge panel of the right-wing U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Governor Greg Abbott and two of his appointees who ...

Voters from the Jacksonville area to Hernando County on the Gulf of Mexico are being asked whether seven judges on the 5th District Court of Appeal should keep their jobs. Decisions on those ...

The 12-judge court, which is based in Daytona Beach, handles appeals from the Fourth Judicial Circuit (Duval, Nassau and Clay counties); Fifth Circuit (Lake, Marion, Sumter, Citrus and Hernando ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday invalidated a Mississippi election law that allowed mail-in and absentee election ballots as long as they were sent on or before Election Day.

A panel of three Donald Trump-appointed judges said Friday that Mississippi was violating federal law by counting mail ...