In August 2023, former U.S. President Donald Trump was indicted for four counts following the November 2020 election and the Capitol attack January 6 2021. The indictment made claims of Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. He did this by spreading obviously false claims of election fraud in an attempt to obstruct the collecting, counting, and certifying of the election results. Trump responded by holding up his presidential immunity as grounds to dismiss the case, claimi

A major issue within the immigration system involves the detention of individuals by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for extended periods of time without access to bond hearings, which are proceedings that allow detained individuals to appear before an immigration judge and argue for their release while their case is pending. In early 2026, a series of court decisions and investigations brought increased attention to the fact that many immigrants were being held for

Facial recognition technology (FRT) is increasingly used by law enforcement agencies in situations where a crime is captured on video and investigators need to identify a suspect, allowing officers to upload a still image from surveillance footage into a system that compares it against large databases of images, including driver’s license photos, mugshots, and even publicly available images from social media. The technology analyzes facial characteristics and converts those m