Voters nationwide approved seven of 10 ballot initiatives preserving abortion rights. Five on marijuana got a mixed response on Tuesday. All 8 ballot measure to prohibit noncitizens voting were ...

Most abortion-rights measures on the ballot this fall are likely to pass, but there’s no guarantee that their success will rub off on Democratic candidates.

A Utah company hired last year to collect signatures for a Nebraska ballot initiative accused the campaign of failing to pay ...

Ohio on Nov. 7 became the seventh state where voters directly backed abortion access since Roe v. Wade was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022. The ballot question enshrines the right to ...

Abortion rights protesters outside the Supreme Court after its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022. (Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP) Three years ago, the Supreme Court issued a bombshell ruling ...

The party has largely shifted its attention to other fights, as some acknowledge the difficulty of battling President Donald Trump on the issue.

Eleven states, for example, have backed abortion rights through citizen-approved initiatives since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling in 2022 ending a federally guaranteed right to abortion.

But what is happening in Missouri is still a sign about the limits of ballot measures. Missouri Republicans already have crafted a new ballot measure that voters will face, most likely in 2026 .

Just a few months ago, Missouri voters approved a ballot measure to protect abortion rights. That measure, known as Amendment 3, added a “reproductive freedom” amendment to the state constitution.

It’s been more than 30 days since a hearing in a conflict over the language of a proposed 2026 reproductive rights ballot initiative, but with no decision yet from the Idaho Supreme Court, the ...

Idaho’s near-total ban on abortions has led a group to try to get an initiative on the ballot regarding abortion rights and other reproductive health care. Darin Oswald doswald@idahostatesman ...