Rights News
Hate crime statistics: what the FBI counts, and what it misses
Reported hate crimes have risen for most of a decade, but the data's deeper finding is structural: thousands of agencies report nothing at all.
Devon Clarke · June 15, 2026
Rights News
A running feed of rights developments: judgments handed down, bills introduced, treaty bodies reporting, enforcement agencies acting. Items are short and dated, with a line of context explaining what changed. Suited to advocates, legal teams and journalists who need to see movement in the field quickly.
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Supreme Court weakens Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Callais ruling
In a 6-3 decision from the 2025-26 term, the Court tightened the standards for vote-dilution claims, and voting-rights lawyers say redistricting litigation will never look the same.
Devon Clarke · May 23, 2026
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Book bans in schools: the numbers, the laws, and the courtroom test
Attempts to remove books hit record levels for a third straight year, concentrated in titles about race and LGBTQ lives, and the litigation has now reached the Supreme Court's doorstep.
Devon Clarke · May 1, 2026
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Four million citizens can't vote because of a felony conviction. The map is the story
Voting rights after prison depend almost entirely on which state a person was convicted in — restore-on-release states and lifetime-ban states sit side by side.
Devon Clarke · April 8, 2026
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Who can enforce the Voting Rights Act is now a question of where you live
A Fifth Circuit split and an Eighth Circuit ruling barring private Section 2 suits have made voting-law enforcement geographic — and the Supreme Court has yet to settle it.
Devon Clarke · March 17, 2026