The race will determine whether Wisconsin’s highest court has a liberal or a conservative majority, and could decide the fate of abortion and election law in the state.

State lawmakers across the country have proposed bills offering stronger protections.

Fox News hosts inaccurately tied the parade crash to progressive efforts to reform the criminal justice system.

The GOP governor has referred to the death penalty as ‘Texas justice.’ Catholic activists say that puts him at odds with his own faith.

Three trans women say a Pennsylvania law has caused them to lose opportunities, put them in danger, and prevented them from living fully as themselves.

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith introduced a budget amendment that would have penalized local governments over prosecutorial discretion.

Thirteen states and the District of Columbia have enacted similar laws thus far.

But some of the same states that are expanding rights are at the same time trying to restrict them.

Police brutality against Black people is ‘a systemic issue, and if you understand it to be systemic, then the solutions must also be systemic,’ one BLM leader said.

LGBTQ advocates celebrated the repeal, saying it was the result of ‘decades’ of hard work.

Many of the review team appointees are graduates of historically Black colleges and universities.

Voters in the state didn’t buy into Donald Trump’s fearmongering.

Biden called the bill a mistake. So what did it really do?

The Navajo Nation said the execution highlights a need to restore tribes’ ability to determine criminal justice matters on tribal land.

Sen. Josh Hawley recently demanded a federal investigation into why a St. Louis couple was investigated for pointing guns at nonviolent protesters.

Even Fox News has debunked this lie.

Also: The world’s largest plastic recycling plant is coming to Pennsylvania, and gay lawmakers make history at the Democratic National Convention.

It’s the same paradoxical attack they have used against Joe Biden.

Colorado joins New Jersey and Washington as the most recent states to ban the legal maneuver.

The coalition of organizations has drafted the BREATHE Act, which it calls a ‘modern-day civil rights act.’

Often, police union agreements make the decision to overturn any discipline final — and courts can’t overturn it.

Americans are more likely now than five years ago to say that police violence against the public is a very serious problem.

Task force says transgender people are particularly vulnerable in jails and prisons.

Also: Local governments work to ensure everyone can vote by mail, and Texas Democrats innovate to make voter registration easier.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday evening that there were no plans to lift the rules.

‘Jails are, you know, just prime opportunities for something like this to spread,’ Bossier Parish Sheriff Julian Whittington said.

The House passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, after nearly 200 failed congressional attempts to pass anti-lynching legislation.

Weinstein was found not guilty on two other counts of predatory sexual assault.

At the same time, Trump is purging people who have fought against corruption in his administration.

Rod Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 of trying to sell the Senate seat that previously belonged to President Obama.