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 ...

The decision comes as a surprise to court watchers who expected the Supreme Court to gut the Voting Rights Act.

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

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

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

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

Around 1,100 of the 1,709 Wisconsinites in prison for crimes they committed as youth were convicted of offenses they committed when they were 17 years old, the report found, using data it obtained ...

Nevada is considering several bills protecting transgender rights. But Gov. Joe Lombardo hasn’t indicated whether or not he ...

A three-judge panel on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging Arkansas' 2021 U.S. House map, ruling that opponents of the ...

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, and the fervent protests that erupted around the world, looked to many observers like the catalyst ...

Uyghur human rights lawyer and advocate Rayhan Asat told UPI that more needs to be done to hold China accountable for the ...