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The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., site of the August 28 rally. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Thousands rally at Lincoln Memorial to defend voting rights

Civil rights leaders say this is the first march since the Supreme Court gutted a core Voting Rights Act protection.

Utah’s 1,300-bed homelessness “accountability center” tests Trump-era crackdown

Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.
Syracuse University's campus. Photo: John Marino / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From Obtaining Police Records

The university, whose 1980s rape crisis figured prominently in a ProPublica article, committed to support survivors at “every step of the process.” Now it’s in court to stop police from sharing many records with a student who was assaulted in 1987.

These Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman...

Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusually high numbers of rebookings.
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Mr. Kjetil Ree / CC BY-SA 3.0

Supreme Court lets Trump’s mail ballot order advance, calls states’ challenge premature

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a solo dissent that the ruling needlessly injects chaos into an election two months away.