President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with ...

Duke Power Co., and was later codified by Congress in the Civil Rights Act of 1991. This EO seeks to eliminate the use of this theory of liability to the “maximum degree possible”. To ...

Duke Power Co. Congress later codified disparate impact liability in the Civil Rights Act of 1991. The new EO does not – and cannot – overrule a Supreme Court decision or change a statute ...

An internal Justice Department memo said President Trump's appointees are considering closing the Community Relations Service ...

President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office has sparked concerns he is rolling back decades of civil rights protections ...

When large bipartisan majorities of Congress enacted and subsequently amended the nation’s major civil rights laws during ...

On the day Title VII of the Civil Rights Act became effective, banning racial and other forms of discrimination in employment, the company instituted new criteria for hiring and promotion ...

More recently, Trump signed an order that would repeal or amend provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, saying his change "guarantees equality of opportunity, not equal outcomes." In addition ...

The Department of Justice division created by the landmark 1957 Civil Rights Act to defend American’s rights has a new mission: rooting out anti-Christian bias, antisemitism and “woke ideology ...