The recent ruling by the state supreme court has heightened tensions in the county attorney race in populous Maricopa County, ...

Changes to indigent defense in Louisiana could stretch an already-underfunded system and erode the quality of representation ...

Pennsylvania will hog the election spotlight on Tuesday. Far from the tumult of March, the commonwealth holds its primaries ...

Bolts covers prosecutor and sheriff races around the nation. Below are the candidates who filed to run for prosecutor and sheriff by Arizona’s filing deadline for major-party candidates. The ...

Among the many ways Oregon has been at the vanguard of making voting easier, perhaps none is more significant than its 1998 ...

Michael Pernick, a voting rights lawyer at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, depends on precinct-level election returns to bring many of his lawsuits. He needs that granular data to analyze whether local ...

Charles Taylor was working to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot in the spring of 2021, when Mississippi’s supreme court stepped in and voided any avenue for direct democracy. With the state’s ...

When a state made cuts to Medicaid, depriving people of access to health insurance, the crime rate increased: That’s the finding of a new academic study, supported by the National Institutes of Health ...