Alaskans appear to have narrowly rejected Measure 2, a ballot initiative that would have repealed the state’s open primary ...

This article was published as a collaboration between Bolts and The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering ...

Organizers wanted to ban the use of solitary confinement against pregnant Californians. They got something else entirely.

More than before, progressives working to protect people’s rights will need state supreme courts to be hospitable to lawsuits ...

Justin Heap, an Arizona lawmaker who has pushed for severe voting restrictions and whose campaign was led by an indicted 2020 ...

Fort Worth advocates who have spent years protesting and demanding outside intervention over rising jail deaths say they’ll ...

Los Angeles' George Gascón and Oakland's Pamela Price sought to use their offices to redress the harms and disparities of the ...

On enshrining abortion rights in state constitution, and overturning a ban (#3, learn more) Yes ...

Ohioans on Tuesday rejected Issue 1, a ballot measure that would have created a new independent redistricting commission and stripped elected politicians of their power to draw congressional and ...

Voters this year are deciding the fate of 82 seats across 33 states’ high courts. Cases involving abortion, democracy, and other critical issues hang in the balance. These offices have wide powers ...

Republican lawmakers in Arizona placed a slew of constitutional amendments on the ballot this fall to limit the recourse available to voters to hold politicians and courts accountable and to take ...