On Valentine's Day in 2004, when Kamala Harris was San Francisco's newly elected district attorney, she performed one of the first same-sex unions in the United States.

Just two years ago, leading anti-abortion activists were euphoric after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, thus ending the nationwide right to abortion. Now, with ...

Feeling good about some other initially competitive races, rank-and-file Democrats want to challenge Republicans in states ...

English republicanism has long been a major theme in the history of political thought, but the years of the English free state are often overlooked. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the ...

The attorney general said the department has become subject to "dangerous" and "outrageous" attacks during his tenure.

OMAHA, Neb. − It's challenging to drive through Nebraska's biggest city without seeing white signs with a singular blue ...

Florida Supreme Court heard arguments in what could be last ditch bid by voter rights organizations to overturn congressional ...

Affidavits for warrants obtained by The Texas Tribune show that investigators were looking into allegations that a Frio County political operator had illegally harvested votes for multiple local ...

Maybell Romero, a professor of law at Tulane University in New Orleans, told Salon that she views this heightened scrutiny as a largely "political pushback" against ... statute in that manner was a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro violated a law limiting political activity by federal employees when he publicly advocated voting for President Joe Biden and criticized ...

A group of Black leaders sued the state over this split, but in late August, a federal court panel ruled that while Tennessee Republicans’ gerrymandered map — the process of splitting communities to ...

"The axis of evil needs the Philadelphi corridor — we need to hold it," he said, at one point pointing to a map that appeared ... labeling it "baseless political spin" that was "disconnected ...