Packed elevators and crowded committee rooms. Legislators sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on the House and Senate floor. People standing close to each other and talking, sometimes leaning in to whisper, without a mask in sight.
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At least eight Mississippi lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after working several weeks in the Capitol, where many people stood or sat close together and did not wear masks.
Read moreA federal court in Michigan dismissed claims brought by the state’s Republican Party and 15 individuals challenging the constitutionality of eligibility restrictions for members of Michigan’s Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. Individuals who sought or held public office in the past six years cannot serve on the commission.
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A Tea Party Republican who was ousted from the Michigan House of Representatives after he used public funds to cover up an affair with a colleague argued before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday to revive his conspiracy claims against the state government and numerous lawmakers.
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The World Health Organization advises governments to make announcements early, be transparent and build trust.
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In the end, after 34 years of investigations into the assassination of popular socialist Prime Minister Olof Palme, Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday said they did not uncover a wide-ranging political conspiracy behind his killing.
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The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission voted Friday to sanction Democratic Senate candidate John Hickenlooper for violating the state’s ban on elected officials accepting gifts while he was governor.
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The European Court of Human Rights issued its second-ever advisory opinion Friday in the prosecution of a former Armenian president, saying a national court should decide whether the law he is charged under is more severe than the one it replaced.
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Pennsylvania Democratic legislators are calling for an investigation after a Republican member of the state tested positive for the Covid-19 but waited a week to inform them.
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Behind closed doors in a secure facility on Capitol Hill, Republicans pushed President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Congressman John Ratcliffe, closer to the finish line Tuesday.
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A Michigan congressman claims in a suit filed Monday that Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s “stay-at-home” orders overstep the boundaries of executive authority and deprive Michigan residents of a republican form of government.
Read moreJeff Burningham sued Utah Governor Gary Herbert in federal court, demanding to be put on the Republican primary ballot for governor because he was prevented from gathering signatures by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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While the U.S. House of Representatives has delayed reassembling due to the Covid-19 pandemic, China, in a step toward returning to business as normal, said Wednesday that its postponed national legislature session will be held in late May.
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Britain’s Parliament is going back to work, and the political authorities have a message for lawmakers: Stay away.
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Candidates for elected office in Michigan need only file half the required number of voter signatures to get their name placed on the state’s primary ballot due to the Covid-19 stay-at-home order, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreIn an era when one’s own grocery deliveries spark anxiety, political candidates canvassing voters to get on the ballot can make do with electronic signatures, the highest court in Massachusetts ruled Friday.
Read moreMitch McConnell’s earliest childhood memory is the day he left the polio treatment center at Warm Springs, Ga., for the last time.
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