Voters will decide on a ballot initiative that would set the stage to let everyone vote by mail without an excuse—an option that could expand access for voters with disabilities.

Over the past year, Seattle has begun barring some residents from entering certain neighborhoods of their city. A new ...

On the first of this month, Wyoming residents began facing some of the nation’s harshest rules when registering to vote, and ...

The Democratic Party in Chesapeake, Virginia’s second-largest city, has embraced and endorsed the local sheriff who ...

Ask a redistricting expert about new GOP efforts to redraw Texas' maps, and the potential impact on Congress and communities ...

Measured by the intensity of the media glare, Tuesday night unquestionably belonged to Liz Cheney’s bid for political survival, as the conservative Republican with the dynastic name fell in a race ...

This article is part of a series on 287(g) contracts in states. ICE’s prized 287(g) program took a hit last week. Two of the nation’s four largest counties with 287(g) contracts quit the program ...

Chicago’s public defenders are among the best-resourced in Illinois, but even there, massive case loads have attorneys and ...

The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.

In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to discrimination laws, and a funding crunch depleting their work.

These offices have wide powers over the scope of incarceration and the conditions of detention, issues that are on the ballot from Tampa and Savannah to Phoenix.