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.
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.
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
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
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
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
Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont ended involuntary-servitude clauses in November 2024, and the hard question now is what prison labor looks like without them.
Devon Clarke · February 22, 2026