As he pushed earlier this year to curtail the access Louisiana residents have to public records, Gov. Jeff Landry drew a culinary analogy, saying restaurant patrons don’t need to see where dinner ...
Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett The Republican rebellion over a ...
The James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, the headquarters of the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco. (Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Courthouse News) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The Trump ...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's office has used a controversial public records exemption to deny over 60 requests from local journalists, residents, and state representatives since 2019, which experts say ...
Alabama Department of Transportation Director John Cooper is seeking to withhold text messages and other communications from past and present chiefs of staff in Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s Administration ...
OLYMPIA, Wash. (CN) — A government watchdog group asked the Washington Supreme Court on Thursday to rethink an exemption to the state’s public records disclosure law after a state agency denied it ...
For more than 30 years, Stanford political scientist James Fishkin has been exploring and demonstrating the capacity of small, representative "mini-publics" to make thoughtful meaningful political ...