What the 2024 Section 702 Renewal Actually Changed About US Surveillance
The RISAA extended the warrantless program for two years — and quietly narrowed the FBI's rules while widening who can be searched.
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Rights follows constitutional questions through the courts: voting access, privacy, free speech, due process, equal protection and religious liberty. Coverage quotes holdings, identifies any circuit split, and explains what a ruling permits or forbids from its effective date. For attorneys, advocates, students and citizens tracking legal change.
Constitutional litigation followed through the courts: voting access, privacy, speech, due process and equal protection, with holdings quoted accurately.
Miller, Montgomery, Jones: How the Supreme Court Rewrote Juvenile Life Sentences
Mandatory life without parole for minors has been unconstitutional since 2012, retroactive since 2016, and discretionary since 2021 — three cases that drew today's sentencing map.
Devon ClarkeWhat the ADA's Web Accessibility Rule Actually Requires, and Why the Deadline Moved
A 2024 rule set a firm technical standard for state and local government websites; a 2026 extension pushed compliance back a year without changing what the standard demands.
Devon ClarkeWho Gets Body Camera Footage, and When: The Disclosure Rules Explained
Public records laws decide release state by state, and the gap between a California 45-day clock and a North Carolina court order is where most footage fights happen.
Devon ClarkeSection 2 of the Voting Rights Act After Callais: What Still Works
The 2026 decision in Louisiana v. Callais rewired the Gingles framework, demanding evidence of intentional race-based map-drawing — and the vote-dilution lawsuit is being rebuilt around it.
Devon ClarkeWhen Is a Politician's Social Media Account a Government Act? Lindke Explained
The Supreme Court's 2024 test turns on state authority and official use, so the same post can be state action from one account and private speech from another.
Devon ClarkeDue Process in Immigration Detention: The Time Limits and Safeguards That Apply
Civil detention without charge has a six-month presumptive outer limit, but a chain of Supreme Court decisions since 2018 has narrowed the bond hearings and lawsuits detainees can invoke.
Devon ClarkeRLUIPA: The Federal Law Churches Use to Fight Local Zoning Boards
Since 2000, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act has let congregations sue cities over zoning denials — and they win far more often than the statute's critics expected.
Devon ClarkeBirthright Citizenship: The Litigation Line Running Through the 14th Amendment
Wong Kim Ark decided the constitutional question in 1898, but a 2025 executive order and the Supreme Court's curbs on universal injunctions have put the fight back into the courts.
Devon ClarkeCarpenter and Location Data: When Police Need a Warrant for Your Movements
The 2018 cell-site ruling drew a line at seven days of historical location records — and the fights over geofence and real-time tracking have been running along that line ever since.
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