Kansas voters have rejected a Republican-backed constitutional amendment that would have allowed them to directly elect state Supreme Court justices, The Associated Press projects. In Kansas, the governor — who since 2019 has been Democrat Laura Kelly — has the power to appoint state Supreme Court justices, chosen from a list created by a nine-member…

The Republican-led North Carolina House on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it easier for residents to challenge other people’s votes and county boards to toss those ballots, alarming critics who say the law could cause post-election chaos. The bill, which the state Senate passed last week, allows county residents to challenge early voters’…

Attorneys for the former Olympic canoeist the Trump administration had charged in a felony Reflecting Pool case are seeking to permanently bar any effort to resurface what they called a “politically motivated prosecution” of their client. The case against David “Davey” Hearn was “motivated by political considerations and devoid of adequate factual support,” his attorneys…