SCOTUS allows states to keep accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day, even as conservatives on the court continue to ...

Mesa’s longtime partnership with ICE has emerged as a major fault line in the July elections, as organizers work to limit ...

Solitary confinement is widely recognized as harmful to people with serious mental illness. In 2021, Colorado lawmakers passed a law intended to limit the practice in jails. Five years later, people ...

Colorado jails continue to put people with serious mental illness in solitary confinement, even after lawmakers passed reforms in 2021 that were aimed at limiting the practice, according to this new ...

In the presidential election, the GOP fared better than in 2020 in every state. But in thousands of legislative races across the country, the results were more complicated. The GOP unquestionably had ...

Governor Glenn Youngkin just gave himself a lot more power to pick and choose Virginia voters. The Republican governor’s administration told state lawmakers in a letter last week that he was ...

The Texas supreme court closed out 2023 by blocking an abortion during a medical emergency, forcing a woman to flee the state. Just days before Christmas, Wisconsin justices struck down the state’s ...

Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen has twice now brought felony conspiracy and vandalism charges against Stanford University students who occupied a campus building in 2024 in protest of ...

This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and The Intercept. Alan Miller had spent the six months leading up to his execution confined to his cell. Though Miller was never given an ...

We’re tracking elections across 12 states. Virginia and Wisconsin have statewide contests, school board races test conservative messaging, and parties battle to control cities, counties, and even ...

This article was published in collaboration between Bolts and New York Focus. On Monday, Janet DiFiore, the chief judge of the Court of Appeals, New York State’s highest court, announced that she will ...