Eleven Washington, D.C. residents filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that the lack of representation for D.C. residents in Congress violates ...

Amid talk of D.C. statehood, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder brought increased attention to the District’s lack of voting representation in Congress in a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from tradition, then-President Lyndon Johnson went to Capitol Hill ...

Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington’s police force this week is adding insult to the injury of the United States’ long denial of equal political standing to the capital’s residents. On Monday, the ...

D.C.‘s city Council is now considering that question. Legislation was introduced on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. By the next presidential election in 2020, 16 and 17 year olds could be voting in the ...

Virginia is one of just a few states where only the governor can restore voting rights for people with felony convictions.