SCOTUS allows states to keep accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day, even as conservatives on the court continue to ...

Mesa’s longtime partnership with ICE has emerged as a major fault line in the July elections, as organizers work to limit ...

Solitary confinement is widely recognized as harmful to people with serious mental illness. In 2021, Colorado lawmakers passed a law intended to limit the practice in jails. Five years later, people ...

Colorado jails continue to put people with serious mental illness in solitary confinement, even after lawmakers passed reforms in 2021 that were aimed at limiting the practice, according to this new ...

The Texas supreme court closed out 2023 by blocking an abortion during a medical emergency, forcing a woman to flee the state. Just days before Christmas, Wisconsin justices struck down the state’s ...

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 ...

This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and The Intercept. Alan Miller had spent the six months leading up to his execution confined to his cell. Though Miller was never given an ...

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 ...

Governor Glenn Youngkin just gave himself a lot more power to pick and choose Virginia voters. The Republican governor’s administration told state lawmakers in a letter last week that he was ...

Editor’s note (Nov. 9, 2022): Referendums in California, Michigan, and Vermont changed the constitutional landscape in those states. See Bolts’s update. Just days before the U.S. Supreme Court ...

LaDerrick Campbell has an IQ in the 60s. His defense counsel described him as “the most profoundly mentally ill client” they had ever encountered. Daniel Blank’s confession was coerced; one of the ...