The midterms will usher in a new cast of characters to oversee the next presidential race. They’ll decide how to answer Trump ...

Families of incarcerated people have long faced arbitrary denial of visits and harassment by prison staff. They advocated for ...

The Trump administration plans to upend the census. They’re proposing to exclude noncitizens from the count that determines the distribution of congressional seats, a move that would subtract ...

Wisconsin’s Sauk and Winnebago counties joined an ICE program to boost immigration enforcement. Candidates running for sheriff have vowed to quit it if elected next month.

In June, when Hydee Feldstein Soto became the first Los Angeles city attorney to lose a primary reelection race in nearly 100 years, her ouster put the spotlight on an... Read More ...

When Danny Tarkenton learned that federal agents had shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last winter, she felt concerned that her local officials would not push back should ...

This story is part of Bolts’s coverage of state supreme court elections in 2026; learn more. In December 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court delivered two key wins for voting rights advocates, ...

When Washington state voters approved new gun control rules in 2018, several sheriffs announced they would not enforce them because they believed them to be unconstitutional, prompting warnings from ...

In 2020, when Fernando was shot twice in the street outside the old Portland Meadows Racetrack, where he was working as a construction flagger, it was actually fortuitous that he tore a tendon in his ...

Editor’s note: On Sept. 14, the Supreme Court blocked the new USPS rule that would severely restrict mail voting. The decision removed a huge amount of uncertainty from the midterms, though the legal ...

Sarah Fair George, one of the most durable avatars of the progressive prosecution movement, all but secured another term on Tuesday as the top prosecutor of Burlington, Vermont. She narrowly prevailed ...

This story was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Injustice Watch, a nonprofit news organization in Chicago focused on issues of equity and justice in the court system. In March 2024, a ...