The ballot measure in Pierce County follows controversies surrounding Sheriff Keith Swank, at a time Washington is grappling ...

Funding cuts have threatened the work of community groups that work outside of law enforcement to support crime victims and ...

People who lost parental rights helped pass a bill to reform California's law blocking people with past convictions for ...

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 ...

One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when federal agents in town for the so-called Operation Catch of the Day immigration ...

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 ...

A pair of liberal attorneys say they'll be more aggressive in defense of democracy as they try to oust Georgia justices on May 19, as the Callais ruling may make state courts more pivotal. Two liberal ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Arkansas next month, two supreme court justices are seeking re-election, sort of—neither is running for the seat they currently hold, but rather for each other’s seat on the bench. Nick Bronni and ...

Voters in Lewiston, Maine, here pictured in 2022, will decide a competitive state House seat critical to control of the state government this year. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Democrats hold the ...

Voting rights advocates have sought for decades to reverse Virginia’s lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions, a 124-year-old Jim Crow relic designed to uphold white supremacy. In a ...