Even after Justice Marshall won the Brown v. [read post]

Arkansas advocacy groups sue the state for diluting black votes in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act; they allege the state split black people into either hyper-concentrated districts or among multiple other districts where they're outnumbered. [read post]

The court said that “The mere fact that many incarcerated felons happen to be black and Latino is insufficient grounds to implicate the Fifteenth Amendment or the Voting Rights Act. [read post]

In addition, on 4 May 2007, the Tennessee Attorney General requested an execution date for Daryl Holton, a former soldier with a history of depression, who has effectively waived his appeals and has been found competent to do so.The execution of another "volunteer", Carey Dean Moore, due to be carried out in Nebraska on 8 May 2007, was stopped by the state Supreme Court on 2 May in view of concerns - not raised by Moore - about Nebraska's use of the electric chair. [read post]

Spending in election cycles by corporations and the ultrawealthy through so-called dark money groups has skyrocketed since the 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. [read post]