New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board, ostensibly a police watchdog, cedes much power to police leadership. Experts say the mayor has the power to boost its independence.

June is full of clashes between flavors of the Democratic Party as the two largest blue states hold primaries, from the race ...

Defendants had asked for Santa Clara DA Jeff Rosen to be recused after evidence emerged that he was using the ongoing ...

Connecticut has for years stood apart from most of the country, including nearly every other blue state, by requiring anyone who wishes to vote by mail to fill out an application asserting a specific ...

No sitting justice has lost reelection here in over a century, but two liberal attorneys aimed for an upset while stressing ...

The sheriff in Wisconsin’s capital county will stop using dozens of AI surveillance cameras posted up across Madison and surrounding towns, after the Dane County Board of Supervisors pulled funding ...

The nation’s voting rights landscape is in upheaval since the U.S. Supreme Court last week dramatically weakened the Voting Rights Act in its Louisiana v. Callais decision. Several GOP-run states ...

This story is a collaboration between Bolts and Injustice Watch, a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization examining issues of equity and justice in the court system. It is the third part in ...

A pair of liberal attorneys say they'll be more aggressive in defense of democracy as they try to oust Georgia justices on May 19, as the Callais ruling may make state courts more pivotal. Two liberal ...

When residents of Whittier, a majority-Latino suburb of Los Angeles, came out in large numbers last summer to protest a rush of ICE operations, the city’s Republican leaders remained unfazed. Masked ...

In the four years since she was released from state prison, April Barber Scales has earned an associate’s degree and most recently, a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. When she first got out in ...