Voting Rights

Case List

Access to the Ballot

Minor v. Happersett (1876)
Guinn v. United States (1915)
Lane v. Wilson (1939)
Nixon v. Herndon (1927)
Nixon v. Condon (1932)
Grovey v. Townsend (1935)
U.S. v. Classic (1941)
Smith v. Allwright (1944)
Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections (1959)
Louisiana v. United States (1965)
Carrington v. Rash (1965)
Harper v. Virginia Bd. of Elections (1966)
Kramer v. Union Free Sch. Dist. No. 15 (1969)
Richardson v. Ramirez (1974)
Hunter v. Underwood (1985)
Rice v. Cayetano (2000)
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board et al (2008)

Congressional Power to Protect Voting Rights

South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966)
Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (2021)
Colegrove v. Green (1946)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
Reynolds v. Sims (1964)

Voting Districts or Redistricting and Race

Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960)
Thornburgh v. Gingles (1986)
Shaw v. Reno (1993)
Miller v. Johnson (1995)
Bush v. Vera (1996)
Cooper v. Harris (2016)

Voting Districts and Partisan Gerrymandering

Rucho v. Common Cause (2019)