Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon on Thursday registered newly-eligible ex-felons to vote after a law ...

The new law allows people with felony convictions to vote as long as they are not currently incarcerated. It expands voting ...

This week’s Supreme Court decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional districts was seen by many minority lawmakers ...

As the country awaits a Supreme Court decision on whether one of those laws, the Voting Rights Act, will be reinforced or ...

The Supreme Court has issued a surprising ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case, rejecting a Republican-led effort to weaken a landmark voting rights law.

The research center's designations are sometimes controversial. Its new report puts the influential Florida group in the same ...

Michigan has the highest number of juvenile lifers in the country. Advocates are pushing for laws that would ban sentencing ...

Why did DeSantis’ election police arrest former felons for unknowingly casting improper votes, while a GOP state attorney ...

House GOP leader Steve Scalise denied that leadership threatened to hold an anti-ATF pistol brace bill hostage to secure ...

Munyaradzi Mushawatu, an electrician in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, was both ecstatic and jittery after President Emmerson ...

At a celebration of Minnesota’s new law that restores voting rights to people who have left prison, Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon registered newly eligible voters Thursday, when the law ...

In a surprising ruling on June 8, 2023, the conservative leaning U.S. Supreme Court threw out Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama that a lower court had ruled discriminated against ...