The most brutal recent example is the 2024 Arkansas Abortion Amendment, which earned the signatures of more than 100,000 voters but was ultimately denied a spot on the ballot over a tedious ...

The Arkansas Ballot Measure rights amendment was designed to give citizens the right to make and repeal laws by petition. It also gives registered Arkansas voters the right to sign a petition and ...

A critical decision about Gillette’s health care access was made Tuesday night when the City Council reversed course and funded a clinic that local religious and political leaders falsely claimed ...

The league is joined in the petition effort by a coalition of groups called Save AR Democracy. Laws approved in the 2025 legislative session changed some of the rules for petition drives, Miller said.

Stras said the plaintiffs in the Arkansas case couldn’t prove that race — as opposed to other considerations — was the predominant factor motivating the decision to split up Pulaski County.

Columbia City Council on Tuesday voted to repeal its ban on conversion therapy for minors, undoing a policy that LGBTQ+ advocates have championed as a vital safeguard for queer youth and a symbol ...

The league is joined in the petition effort by a coalition of groups called Save AR Democracy. Laws approved in the 2025 legislative session changed some of the rules for petition drives, Miller said.

Reproductive rights advocates are reeling from Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of South Carolina in a legal case to block Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, which they fear will ...

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin speaks during a press conference at the Office of the Attorney General on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Kyle McDaniel/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) ...

The goal of the petition, according to The New York Times, is not necessarily to erase the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) restrictions on mifepristone, but instead to force the FDA ...