Lyndon B. Johnson - Search News

Best way to fix the Supreme Court’s attack on voting rights

Supreme Court hollows out a landmark law that had protected minority voting rights for 6 decades

The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect thousa...

· 17h

Why the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act after six decades in a blow to Black politicians

· 2d · on MSN

Supreme Court sides against Black voters in blow to landmark civil rights law

· 1d

Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act, Talarico reacts

State Rep. James Talarico is blasting the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act.

· 1d

US Supreme Court Under Roberts Takes 'Wrecking Ball' to Voting Rights Act

· 1d

AL greets Supreme Court voting districts ruling with cheers, outrage

· 2h

Indiana leaders criticize Supreme Court ruling on Voting Rights Act

“The basis of the Voting Rights Act was to ensure that African Americans had both equal access to the polls and equal representation in governmental bodies. Today’s decision is yet another blow in a d...

· 1d

Supreme Court decision sets off gerrymandering scramble

· 1d

Louisiana Congressional Primaries Suspended After Supreme Court Rolls Back Voting Rights Act

What to Know About the Voting Rights Act

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the civil rights movement.

AOL

Our Most NSFW President? Lyndon B. Johnson's Strange Obsession with Showing Off His 'Jumbo' Johnson

While former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton may be the poster boys for White House sex scandals, it's possible that Lyndon B. Johnson had even more NSFW moments in the Oval Office. The 36th U.S. president took office on Nov. 22, 1963, being ...

Iowa Public Radio

What happened when Lyndon Johnson federalized the National Guard

Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that authority in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights ...

Supreme Court hollows out a landmark law that had protected voting rights for 6 decades

In the six decades since, it became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box.