Trump eliminates help for Black and Latino communities hit harder by pollution
Trump eliminated the “Justice40” initiative the Biden administraton had created. It required 40% of the benefits from certain environmental programs go to hard-hit communities.
Donald Trump takes aim at diversity initiatives, bedrock civil rights: 5 takeaways
While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...
In policy reversal, Trump eliminates help for Black and Latino communities hit harder by pollution
President Trump is reversing his predecessor’s efforts to clean up areas hardest hit by pollution from heavy industry, ports ...
Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship would overturn more than a century of precedent
US President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a ...
Trump Says DEI Is Illegal. Here’s the Truth
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order designed to eradicate workforce diversity, equity and inclusion ( DEI) ...
Biden set records for appointing diverse federal judges. Here’s what that looks like.
Originally published by The 19th. The Michigan Advance is part of Reporting Network. During Joe Biden’s four years as ...
The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship
The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...
Georgia asks federal appeals court to tighten Voting Rights Act
The state of Georgia is seeking another Supreme Court showdown over the Voting Rights Act. The state asked a federal appeals court to interpret the 1965 law in a way that could make it much harder to ...
How the modern Supreme Court might view the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship
In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...
The Issue Before the Court:
The case revolves around one white man's claim that he was discriminated against in favor of blacks, but far more is at stake in the deliberations now getting under way before the Supreme Court of the ...
CT Supreme Court upholds dismissal of 'white supremacist' defamation lawsuit
A trial judge was right to dismiss a defamation lawsuit over the term "white supremacist" because it is pure opinion, the ...
CT Supreme Court says ‘white supremacist’ not defamatory in context of online debate about race
The state Supreme Court has weighed in on mean-spirited exchanges that have come to characterize debate on social media, ...