Roxbury is pushing back on plans for a new detention facility, claiming DHS is violating environmental regulations. Other ...

Members of Georgia Stand-Up and We Vote encourage people to vote in Georgia’s 2022 runoff election for U.S Senate. (Steve Schaefer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) Four states are holding their ...

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 ...

As tech products play an increasingly integral role in all of our lives, they’re generating a trove of personal data that ...

Abigail Spanberger blocked a bill to bar prosecutors from pressuring Virginians to waive protections against unreasonable ...

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Pascal is a staff writer for Bolts. He previously worked for Block Club Chicago covering policing and courts, and the city’s west side neighborhoods.

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 ...

Local elections in the U.S. routinely go uncontested, with incumbents to powerful offices often running unopposed. But even with that very low bar, the district attorney elections that Oregon is ...

Almost as soon as Kansas lawmakers passed a new law targeting transgender people in late February, state officials started invalidating some people’s driver’s licenses without warning. The law, which ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that it’s unconstitutional to automatically sentence someone to life in prison without the possibility for parole for a killing they didn’t participate ...

At a recent online webinar for Local Progress, a coalition organization for local elected officials, council members from around the country were instructed to, among other things, think about public ...