Court ruling spurs effort to register Latino voters in Arizona

The U.S. Supreme Court's 7-2 decision striking down Arizona's proof-of-citizenship voting law got the big headlines Monday, but the court also issued a curious decision in a Texas murder case that caught our attention. Turns out, the Fifth Amendment ...

By a surprising 7-2 majority, the Supreme Court this week struck down a bristly little ballot initiative that Arizona passed in 2004, requiring everyone who registers to vote to prove his or her citizenship. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority ...

_ The U.S. Supreme Court took the easy step when it ruled yesterday that the state of Arizona must "accept and use" the form prepared by the federal Election Assistance Commission to register voters. The harder question is just what "accept and ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R. Tex) is very unhappy about this week's Supreme Court ruling, which held that Arizona cannot demand documentary evidence of United States citizenship as a condition of registering to vote in federal elections. The ruling has opened ...

The Supreme Court this week halted Arizona's attempt to thwart the will of Congress when it established national norms for voter registration in federal elections with the National Voter Registration Act of 1995 ("NVRA"). This is good news ...

The Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court sit for their official photograph. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Arizona cannot require proof of citizenship when people register to vote.(Photo: Tim Sloan, AFP/)The Supreme Court ruled Monday that ...

at 12:23 AM Tweet Votings Rights Act supporters in South Carolina (Richard Ellis/) In a piece for the Huffington Post, the Rev. Al Sharpton applauds the high court's recent ruling striking down Arizona's attempt at voter suppression, known as ...

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer addresses the media about the Supreme Court's decision on SB1070 in Phoenix, Arizona, June 25, 2012.