June is full of clashes between flavors of the Democratic Party as the two largest blue states hold primaries, from the race ...

New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board, ostensibly a police watchdog, cedes much power to police leadership. Experts say the mayor has the power to boost its independence.

Defendants had asked for Santa Clara DA Jeff Rosen to be recused after evidence emerged that he was using the ongoing ...

No sitting justice has lost reelection here in over a century, but two liberal attorneys aimed for an upset while stressing ...

The state had fallen far behind national norms by still requiring an excuse, but a new law just expanded mail voting. It goes ...

When the supreme court in Wyoming struck down an abortion ban in January, it cited a state constitutional amendment adopted in 2012 that affirmed a right for people to make their own health care ...

The nation’s voting rights landscape is in upheaval since the U.S. Supreme Court last week dramatically weakened the Voting Rights Act in its Louisiana v. Callais decision. Several GOP-run states ...

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 ...

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 & ...