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

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

Chris Taylor’s win on Tuesday expands liberals’ majority on Wisconsin’s high court and locks it in through the next ...

Almost as soon as Kansas lawmakers passed a new law targeting transgender people in late February, state officials started ...

Each of Oregon's 15 DA elections is uncontested this year, shutting the door for public debate around prosecutors’ policies ...

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.

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 ...

Supporters of Eileen Higgins, a candidate for Miami mayor, outside Miami City Hall in November 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have ...

Throughout Abron Arrington’s decades-long incarceration in Colorado, he often found himself in solitary confinement—not because he was causing trouble, but simply because he refused to work. He didn’t ...

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 ...

Faced with popular initiatives to protect abortion rights and other measures they dislike, state Republicans are passing new bills that local advocates say will hollow out direct democracy. Organizers ...