Each of Oregon's 15 DA elections is uncontested this year, shutting the door for public debate around prosecutors’ policies ...

Voters in Wisconsin ensured on Tuesday that the supreme court in one of the nation’s premier swing states will be controlled by liberals through at least 2030. Chris Taylor, a former Democratic state ...

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 ...

We’re tracking elections across 12 states. Virginia and Wisconsin have statewide contests, school board races test conservative messaging, and parties battle to control cities, counties, and even ...

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing the ...

Virginia is poised to impose new conditions on local ICE partnerships, which the Trump administration seems likely to reject. That would effectively trigger a ban on sheriffs and police departments in ...

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill on Wednesday signed legislation banning local law enforcement agencies from partnering with federal immigration authorities, making it the 10th state to adopt laws ...