Rights News
What qualified immunity actually shields government officials from
Devon Clarke · August 17, 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.
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.
Rights News
The immigration court backlog is now measured in millions of cases
Pending cases passed 3.5 million in recent counts, wait times run years, and the system's due-process problem is arithmetic before it is legal.
Devon Clarke · July 30, 2026
Rights News
Police accountability now runs on disclosure laws, not prosecutors
With federal oversight scaled back, the operative checks are state misconduct-record laws, civilian oversight, and the settlement data cities quietly publish.
Monica Cummings · July 7, 2026
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
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