House Democrats resoundingly rejected a Republican-led effort to reform a court ruling that bars law enforcement in ...

The Alabama Legislature is considering changes to the bail system, with bills HB 42 and HB 410 progressing through committee ...

The smorgasbord legislation is part of President Trump’s ‘one big beautiful bill’ strategy to get all of his legislative ...

Texas State Senator Huffman discusses increasing violence due to bail policies and pushes for judicial discretion in bail ...

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Monday proposed transferring the Federal Trade Commission's ...

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have scheduled a Wednesday meeting to craft sweeping changes to federal ...

Legislation to let Texas parents to use public dollars to help pay for private education has been sent to Gov. Greg Abbott.

The senior United States senator for Texas says he's helped President Trump get his Cabinet nominees approved and his agenda ...

Still parked in a rules committee having passed one chamber is a proposal for North Carolina to join more than half the country with constitutional carry.

Legislation in front of the General Assembly would create the “Office of State Public Defender,” which would primarily be ...

When Elisabeth Pollock took over as the Champaign County public defender in 2022, one of her team’s attorneys was handling ...

House Bill 3363 passed ... Under the bill, a local nominating committee would be tasked with appointing or removing public ...