Maureen Harrod will seek the Circuit Judge, Division 4, seat in Arkansas’ 16th Judicial District, which includes Cleburne, Fulton, Izard, Independence, and Stone counties. The division handles all ...

In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to ...

The United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued a temporary stay, maintaining President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard hours after ...

With its rolling mountain scenery and mineral hot springs, this area has eased spirits for generations. The Ouachita Mountains are located about 50 miles southwest of Little Rock, Arkansas. Hot ...

U.S. District Court Judge Peter Welte in 2023 ruled that the new map was discriminatory and ordered the Legislature to implement a new map that placed the reservations in the same voting district.

Arkansas Circuit Court Judge Amy Dunn Johnson is well-acquainted with the legal deserts in Arkansas. For 11 years, she served as executive director of the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission, a ...

Last year, a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Rudofsky’s ruling, ... the ACLU is now considering challenging Arkansas’ state legislative map under Section 1983, ...

Arkansas’ Republican attorney general, Tim Griffin, called the groups’ decision to not take the issue to the Supreme Court a “win for Arkansas.” “(The 8th Circuit ruling) confirmed that decisions ...

The plaintiffs -- Arkansas State Conference NAACP and the Arkansas Public Policy Panel -- filed suit in late December 2020 contending that the U.S. House map approved by the Board of Apportionment ...

It was a precedent-setting ruling that was upheld in November 2023 by a three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, with the full appeals court next rebuffing a request for a rehearing ...

Progressive groups in Arkansas have decided to not ask ... The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in January denied ... Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act requires political maps to include ...