Voters in Wisconsin ensured on Tuesday that the supreme court in one of the nation’s premier swing states will be controlled ...

Almost as soon as Kansas lawmakers passed a new law targeting transgender people in late February, state officials started ...

The court’s ruling could create a pathway out of prison for more than 1,000 people who were automatically sentenced to life ...

Immigration authorities haven’t yet descended onto New York in the numbers they have in other cities. Advocates want public ...

This article is produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Mother Jones. For the first time since the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020, voters in Minneapolis and ...

Update: Tina Peters, Peter Lupia, and Julie Fisher all lost their Republican primaries on June 28. Karen Hoopes moved on to the general election in Adams County. A Colorado county clerk who espouses ...

After years of being whittled away by federal judges, the Voting Rights Act unexpectedly survived an existential threat in 2023 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld what’s left of the landmark civil ...

State supreme courts have come under a brighter spotlight as battlefields for some of today’s most pressing issues, from abortion rights and climate to extreme sentencing and ballot access. And ...

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...

Donald Trump’s promise of “mass deportations” looms over millions of people who live in the United States. But the infrastructure to detain immigrants didn’t start with Trump. U.S. Immigration & ...

Voting rights advocates have sought for decades to reverse Virginia’s lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions, a 124-year-old Jim Crow relic designed to uphold white supremacy. In a ...