The clock neared midnight on Monday, April 7, the final day of Maryland’s 2025 legislative session, and immigrant rights advocates, who’d been at the statehouse all day, and for many... Read More ...

A bipartisan push for jail oversight comes after a North Texas sheriff flouted state law mandating independent investigations ...

Michigan’s supreme court created new protections against life sentences for people up to 20, pushing the line for who gets ...

After North Carolina's previous governor granted clemency to people sentenced to life in prison as minors, others with ...

Two more states just banned grace periods for mail ballots that are sent before polls close but arrive after Election Day.

Don’t miss a record-breaking supreme court race, mayoral contests all over the map, congressional special elections in Florida, and more. Also on the menu in April: There are several mayoral contests ...

Update (March 29): Louisianans on March 29 rejected Amendment 3, the measure that would have paved the way for more children to be moved to adult criminal courts, by a large margin of 66 to 34 percent ...

On a Saturday in March, approximately 60 teenagers sat in a movie theater at CityPlex12 in Newark, New Jersey eating popcorn and drinking fountain sodas. A DJ played songs by Mary J. Blige and André ...

The biggest name in Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election belonged to neither of its candidates, but to Elon Musk, who spent extravagantly on the race in an effort to further cement Republican ...