The U.S. judge's opinion explains how Kelly's military retiree status and position as a senator play a role in his free ...

A bill that would alter the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ approval process for water use permits in Iowa advanced ...

The House of Representatives has become increasingly closed to minority party amendments, with both sides using procedural tactics to maximize their power and constrain the other, resulting in a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “The federal government is attempting to bend the state’s will to its own—and that is ...

A Virginia judge has dealt a blow to Democrats’ efforts to redraw the commonwealth’s 11 congressional districts in a bid to pick up seats ahead of this year’s mid-term election. Tazewell County ...

Virginia House Democrats wasted little time flexing their new majority on the opening day of the 2026 General Assembly, pushing through four proposed constitutional amendments Wednesday aimed at ...

Lawyers clashed Tuesday in a federal courtroom in San Jose over whether student newspaper The Stanford Daily can proceed with a First Amendment lawsuit alleging the Trump administration used ...

Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral election with the narrowest majority in almost a quarter-century, securing barely 50 percent of the vote as the Democratic nominee in an overwhelmingly ...

Citizenship rules are constitutional and may be altered only by an amendment. When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- ...

Sen. Kim Hammer (R-Benton), who is running for Secretary of State in 2026, was the lead sponsor of several bills in 2025 designed to limit or end direct democracy in Arkansas. In 2025, Arkansas ...

A constitutional amendment that could legalize recreational marijuana in Florida will move forward ahead of the 2026 election, Florida officials announced this week. The activist organization behind ...