based primarily on a statement made by Senator Lyman Trumbull about the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Speaking of that statute—a precursor to the Citizenship Clause—Trumbull claimed that a ...

Immigrant and civil rights advocates, including the American ... The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1866, less than a year after the end of the Civil War.

And Lash is right to underscore its presence in debates over the Civil Rights Act of 1866, during which Iowa Representative James Wilson praised its "careful and painstaking examination" of Black ...

Mark Gordon held a ceremony Tuesday to veto a bill that aimed at protecting ... but Senate Enrolled Act 82 would have expanded it to include redress through civil litigation, in addition to the ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ...

A group of civil rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order requiring proof ...

Deuel Ross has written this fascinating article for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Here is the abstract: Voting is an act of faith. Faith that your vote will matter. Faith that ...

A Louisiana redistricting case signals that further attacks on the Voting Rights Act may be coming, putting fair ...

who has openly railed against the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination against marginalized groups. Tellingly, Dhillon’s main argument in that race was that the GOP needed to invest ...

The complaint alleges that these Cincinnati Children's programs discriminate against individuals based on race and sex in violation of the Affordable Care Act and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act ...

The San Francisco Office for Civil Rights is closing down as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education. It is uncertain what will come of the backlog of the ...

Offices will remain in Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Seattle and Washington, D.C. The OCR is one of the federal government’s largest enforcers of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, investigating ...