Organizers wanted to ban the use of solitary confinement against pregnant Californians. They got something else entirely.

Ohioans on Tuesday rejected Issue 1, a ballot measure that would have created a new independent redistricting commission and stripped elected politicians of their power to draw congressional and ...

More than before, progressives working to protect people’s rights will need state supreme courts to be hospitable to lawsuits ...

Bolts closely covers local and state elections and their ramifications for civil rights, voting rights, and criminal justice. Here find our coverage of the 2023 elections in Pennsylvania, scheduled ...

Justin Heap, an Arizona lawmaker who has pushed for severe voting restrictions and whose campaign was led by an indicted 2020 ...

Los Angeles' George Gascón and Oakland's Pamela Price sought to use their offices to redress the harms and disparities of the ...

Fort Worth advocates who have spent years protesting and demanding outside intervention over rising jail deaths say they’ll ...

Republican lawmakers in Arizona placed a slew of constitutional amendments on the ballot this fall to limit the recourse available to voters to hold politicians and courts accountable and to take ...