Families of incarcerated people have long faced arbitrary denial of visits and harassment by prison staff. They advocated for ...

The Trump administration plans to upend the census. They’re proposing to exclude noncitizens from the count that determines the distribution of congressional seats, a move that would subtract ...

Wisconsin’s Sauk and Winnebago counties joined an ICE program to boost immigration enforcement. Candidates running for ...

Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, ...

In June, when Hydee Feldstein Soto became the first Los Angeles city attorney to lose a primary reelection race in nearly 100 years, her ouster put the spotlight on an... Read More ...

When Danny Tarkenton learned that federal agents had shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last winter, she felt concerned that her local officials would not push back should ...

When Washington state voters approved new gun control rules in 2018, several sheriffs announced they would not enforce them because they believed them to be unconstitutional, prompting warnings from ...

Editor’s note: On Sept. 14, the Supreme Court blocked the new USPS rule that would severely restrict mail voting. The decision removed a huge amount of uncertainty from the midterms, though the legal ...

A dog at a polling location in New Hampshire, one of the states with September primaries. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Sipa USA) The 2026 primaries are reaching the end: The four remaining states that have ...

Missouri Republicans are aggressively working to manipulate the rules of democracy to their benefit, including, notably, by further gerrymandering the state at Donald Trump’s urging, and trying to ...

When Confederate states rejoined the Union after the Civil War, Congress anticipated that white lawmakers across the South would manipulate and weaponize the criminal legal system to prevent Black ...