Candidates bring up a criminal case that occurred on their opponent’s watch, and use it to attack them for being too lenient.

In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to ...

We’re only days removed from the political earthquake in New York City’s mayoral race, but the election calendar matches on: ...

Arizona Prop 139: On establishing a right to abortion access.: Yes: California: San Francisco Prop O: On shoring up local protections for abortion rights.: Yes: Colorado Amendment 79: On establishing ...

The changes in SB 1 build on an earlier Colorado law, passed in 2021, which required certain counties to provide sample ballots online in non-English languages and to offer a translated ballot to ...

Republicans already know their nominee for lieutenant governor: John Reid, a conservative radio show host, is the sole candidate despite a failed effort by Governor Glenn Youngkin to push him out of ...

In Oklahoma, organizers have to race against the clock to get measures on the ballot. The state has the nation’s shortest window of time for collecting the tens of thousands of signatures needed to ...

Since 2015, Rikers has been monitored by a federal judge as the result of a settlement in a lawsuit, Nuñez, that sought to address violence and use of force in the city’s jails. In early May, amidst ...

The office of the Chesapeake sheriff does not patrol and rarely makes arrests in the field, but it does run jails and staff courts—two critical access points for federal immigration enforcement.“We ...

A review of dozens of financial disclosure statements by Bolts showed enormous discrepancies in how much justices of the peace across the state collected and spent through their office. In Caddo ...

Terry Townsend, who was released on parole last fall after spending two decades behind bars in Alabama, calls his freedom “a miracle.” Townsend had been previously denied parole twice, first in 2019 ...