The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of “race, color, or national origin.” The Justice Department and the courts have historically interpreted the law as a ban on ...

Legal expert Hans von Spakovsky explains what will happen because the Justice Department ended disparate impact regulations.

The U.S. civil rights agency responsible for enforcing worker rights will stop investigating complaints about company policies that don’t explicitly discriminate but may disproportionately harm ...

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Curbing so-called ...

On April 23, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at narrowing civil rights protections and directing federal agencies to roll back the use of the disparate impact standard in "all ...

Federal authorities moved Friday to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump's administration to halt the use ...

You're correct if you understand this to put incredible power into the hands of those who create the categories and who determine that "desired proportional representation." Now, I'm not a lawyer, but ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. The Obama administration’s new efforts to reduce the overrepresentation of some racial and ethnic groups in school discipline cases came in for criticism at a public ...

President Trump’s recent Truth Social warning about the rise of “Woke AI” echoes his prior executive order, Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government, which seeks to confront ...

President Donald Trump waits to greet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the entrance of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2025. POOL/AFP via Getty Images The ...