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Nick Byrne, University of North Carolina School of Law

The US government has made relatively few amendments to federal legislation dealing with undocumented immigration in the past few decades, despite the introduction of numerous pieces of legislation during the last 10 years. This has led individual states to begin...

Today, there are 32 states in the US that require voters to present identification at the polls in order to vote, including 17 states that have passed laws requiring a photo ID. Voter ID laws have become increasingly controversial as...

Chris Reis, University of Denver; Lynn Lawry, Brigham and Women's Hospital

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Friday preliminarily approved a proposed settlement of $7.2 billion between merchants and Visa and Mastercard , which would be the largest...

A judge for the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on Friday rejected a request to expedite briefing on a challenge to voter ID advertisements. The plaintiffs, which include civil rights groups such as the League of Women...

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Tuesday vacated the decision of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court upholding the state's new voter identification law and remanded for further consideration. The...

JURIST Guest Columnist Lawrence Frolik of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that Pennsylvania's new voter identification law is an unconstitutional violation of citizens' fundamental right to vote, and that the disenfranchisement of voters is not justified by...

Arguments began in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday in a lawsuit brought by Texas against the US government regarding a voter identification law that was blocked by the Department of Justice...

The state of Arizona on Wednesday filed an Application to Stay Mandate asking the US Supreme Court to allow state election officials to demand voters to show proof of citizenship before registering to vote. In...