We are remembering the great John Lewis on his birthday today. The late congressman was a voting rights legend who fought tirelessly for equal rights for Black Americans. 

Here are some recent updates.

• Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Jeff Merkley (Ore.), sent a letter pressing for the urgent implementation of President Joe Biden’s 2021 executive order that seeks to modernize and promote voting access.

• Today was a decision day for the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Court did not release decisions in two cases we’ve been tracking: whether South Carolina's congressional map is racially gerrymandered and whether former President Donald Trump is eligible to be on Colorado's primary ballot.

• A New York appellate court affirmed a decision to strike down a New York City law that permits certain noncitizen residents to vote in local city elections. The court ruled that the law violates the state constitution.

• A trial has been scheduled for April 8-9 in a lawsuit brought by "non-African American" voters arguing that Louisiana's new court-ordered congressional map with two majority-Black districts is racially gerrymandered.

• A federal court in Minnesota held a hearing in a lawsuit filed by conservatives challenging a state law that makes certain acts of election misinformation, voter intimidation and harassment a crime.

• The Supreme Court rejected appeals from Trump-aligned lawyers Sidney Powell and Lin Wood for legal sanctions they were hit with for falsely alleging in a court filing that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election in Michigan because of widespread voter fraud.