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Undated: Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression.

Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life, and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, and disability;[1][2][3] and individual rights such as privacy and the freedoms of thought, speech, religion, press, assembly, and movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights

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January 23:
Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-governments-racial-bias-case-against-donald-trumps-company-and-how-he-fought-it/2016/01/23/fb90163e-bfbe-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b17d71050e6a

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January 27: Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights rollbacks [listed]
https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/

May 30: Donald Trump’s war on civil rights is intensifying.

The Washington Post reported late Monday that the White House budget includes plans to “disband the Labor Department division that has policed discrimination among federal contractors for four decades.” It’s the latest in Trump’s ongoing weakening of civil rights, including reconsidering the Obama administration’s policing reforms and rescinding its transgender bathroom guidelines. “Under President Trump’s proposed budget,” the Post reported, “the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights—which has investigated thousands of complaints of discrimination in school districts across the country and set new standards for how colleges should respond to allegations of sexual assault and harassment—would also see significant staffing cuts.”
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/142951/donald-trumps-war-civil-rights-intensifying


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May 30: Obama’s Civil Rights Legacy Is Crumbling

The Trump administration is dismantling its predecessor’s moves to protect women, minorities, the poor, and LGBTQ people.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/05/the_trump_administration_is_dismantling_obama_s_civil_rights_legacy.html

June 15: Trump Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government

Previously unannounced directives will limit the Department of Justice’s use of a storied civil rights enforcement tool, and loosen the Department of Education’s requirements on investigations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-rolls-back-civil-rights-efforts-federal-government

June 17: The US Commission on Civil Rights [an independent government agency] announced Friday that it will investigate the Trump administration's enforcement of civil rights, saying it has concerns about the impact of proposed budget and staff cuts across the federal government.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/17/politics/civil-rights-commission-probe/index.html

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January 17: President Trump's First Year Was an Affront to Civil Rights

If Charlottesville gave the public a glimpse into the president’s moral failure in the face of white supremacy, his administration has, by word and deed, made it plain that it has no interest in advancing racial justice and pushing America toward the more perfect Union that our Constitution envisioned.
http://time.com/5106648/donald-trump-civil-rights-race/

February 23:
Trump’s Justice Department isn’t enforcing civil rights

Total activity in the agency’s civil rights division is at a 17-year low, falling well below levels seen in the last two administrations ... One DOJ section charged with enforcing laws on police department misconduct has been completely inactive.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wj44y4/trumps-justice-department-isnt-enforcing-civil-rights

March 5: Critics say conservative Trump Health and Human Services appointee is trampling over patients' civil rights

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By way of explanation, officials cite 36 complaints OCR received from, or on behalf of, those working in the health care system from President Donald Trump’s election through early January of alleged affronts to religious beliefs and moral convictions — up from 10 such complaints it had fielded since 2008.

What officials did not mention is that those 36 complaints pale against the more than 30,000 total complaints that OCR received during 2017, according to the agency’s latest budget request; most involved alleged breaches of privacy or discrimination against patients.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/03/05/critics-say-conservative-trump-health-and-human-services-appointee-trampling-over-patients-civil-rig/394542002/

April 3: Fifty years after King's death, U.S. civil rights leaders lament Trump's rise ... they are fearful President Donald Trump could reverse progress made on civil rights in the United States since King’s death.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mlk-rights/fifty-years-after-kings-death-u-s-civil-rights-leaders-lament-trumps-rise-idUSKCN1HA2W2

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May 6: Trump's judges are flexing their muscles, from civil rights to campaign spending

Nearly a year after the first of them won Senate confirmation, 15 nominees have made their way to federal appeals courts, representing perhaps Trump's most significant achievement in his 15 months as president. A dozen more are in the pipeline.

Trump's judges have ruled in favor of police, prison guards and a male student seeking the right to face his accuser in a sexual assault case, as well as against a naturalized citizen fighting his loss of citizenship. 

The early results please conservatives and concern liberals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/06/trumps-judges-ruling-politics-prayer-executions-race/576848002/

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May 7: Civil rights groups wary of Trump's latest faith-based initiative

The order establishes a new office at the White House intended to empower faith-based organizations and “promote religious freedom.”

Some civil rights advocates, however, fear it will result in discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/civil-rights-groups-wary-trump-s-latest-faith-based-initiative-n872031

May 8:
The Trump Administration Is Making it Easier to Evade Housing Desegregation Law, Triggering Civil Rights Lawsuit ... has illegally suspended a rule that requires local governments to show they’re working to reduce housing segregation, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and its secretary, Ben Carson.
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/08/the-trump-administration-is-making-it-easier-to-evade-housing-desegregation-law-triggering-civil-rights-lawsuit/

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September 3:
Trump’s Justice Department Redefines Whose Civil Rights to Protect

Since its founding six decades ago, the Justice Department’s civil rights division has used the Constitution and federal law to expand protections of African-Americans, gays, lesbians and transgender people, immigrants and other minorities — efforts that have extended the government’s reach from polling stations to police stations.

But under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the focus has shifted to people of faith, police officers and local government officials who maintain they have been trampled by the federal government. The department has supported state voting laws that could wind up removing thousands of people from voter rolls. And it has pulled back on robust oversight of police departments found to have violated the rights of citizens in their jurisdictions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/us/politics/civil-rights-justice-department.html

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October 11: The Senate Oct. 11 confirmed Eric Dreiband, a Jones Day attorney who defends companies accused of discrimination, to lead the Justice Department office that enforces anti-bias laws and investigates police civil rights cases.

Lawmakers voted 50-47 to confirm Dreiband to head the DOJ Civil Rights Division. The unit also enforces voting rights laws.

“Those who have worked with Mr. Dreiband emphasize his strong commitment to protecting all Americans’ civil rights,” Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said prior to the vote.

Dreiband represented the University of North Carolina when it implemented policies under the state’s since-repealed “bathroom bill,” requiring people to use gender-designated restroom facilities based on the biological sex listed on their birth certificates. He also won a case for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco that made it harder for workers to sue for age discrimination under federal law.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/discrimination-defense-lawyer-confirmed-for-trump-civil-rights-post-1

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October 10: ACLU Fights Back as Trump Pushes 'Stealth Proposal' to Limit Public's Right to Protest Outside White House

"Trump might not like having protesters on his doorstep, but the First Amendment guarantees their right to be there."

Thousands of people have submitted public comments [to the National Park Service] on the proposal, including more than 8,700 this week. The comment period closes Monday. 
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/10/aclu-fights-back-trump-pushes-stealth-proposal-limit-publics-right-protest-outside


October 12: A Trump administration proposal to limit protests at the White House and the National Mall, including by potentially charging fees for demonstrations, is meeting stiff resistance from civil rights groups who say the idea is unconstitutional.

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The National Park Service is considering a plan to push back a security perimeter so that it would include most of the walkway north of the White House, a spot closed to traffic since 1995 that has become a regular venue for demonstrations. The proposal also floats the idea of allowing the agency to charge a fee for protests. 

Though the ideas were proposed earlier this year, they are facing renewed attention given President Donald Trump's recent comments on protests following the confirmation of Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Trump called the protesters "screamers" and claimed, without evidence, that they were funded by Democratic donors.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/12/donald-trump-new-regulations-proposed-white-house-protests/1615362002/

October 21: The Trump administration reportedly wants the government to revoke civil rights protections from transgender people

They want to define gender at birth — and force DNA tests to prove otherwise.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/21/18005594/trump-administration-transgender-sex-dna-test

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October 24: Trump administration considering ‘different concepts’ regarding transgender rights, with some pushing back internally

President Trump said Monday that his administration is “seriously” considering changing the way it treats transgender people under the law, confirming what administration officials describe as a debate about whether to define a person’s sex as a biological fact determined at birth.

The Health and Human Services Department has been pushing for the change, a fresh and direct aim at transgender rights, hoping other departments embrace that approach for sweeping impact. But it is unclear whether there is support for the broader effort or whether the regulation would be issued at all, as some in the administration are pushing back.

Such a change seeks to negate claims that gender identity — rather than biological gender — can be used for protection under federal civil rights laws such as Title IX, which bans sex discrimination. If such regulations were adopted, the federal government would consider a transgender person’s sex to be what is determined at birth rather than the gender with which they identify.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trump-administration-considering-different-concepts-regarding-transgender-rights-with-some-pushing-back-internally/2018/10/22/0668f4da-d624-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html?utm_term=.b1b78b8d2957


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October 27: Blaming Victims For Mail Bombs Carries Echoes Of Civil Rights Bombings

Before authorities apprehended suspect Cesar Sayoc in connection to the series of mail bombs, the case prompted all sorts of speculation and conspiracy theories. The bombs were all sent to high profile critics of President Trump

"It is a high probability that the whole thing is set up as a false flag to gain sympathy for the Democrats," said talk radio host Michael Savage, "and to get our minds off the hordes of illegal aliens approaching our southern border."
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/27/661110544/blaming-victims-for-mail-bombs-carries-echoes-of-civil-rights-bombings

October 29: As Americans engage in a national conversation about divisions in the U.S., amplified after the weekend synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, the Trump administration has been carrying out a bipartisan effort to celebrate sites that mark the history of civil rights and African-Americans in the United States.

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And on Friday, President Trump designated the Union Army recruitment center at Camp Nelson in Kentucky a national monument. Thousands of enslaved African-Americans escaped to Camp Nelson and ended up enlisting in the Union Army or living in refugee settlements at the camp, according to the White House statement. The area is considered one of the best preserved sites related to the experience of escaped and emancipated slaves who fought in the Civil War.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-recognizing-civil-rights-sites-us/story?id=58831919


November 14: Civil rights group demanding outtakes from ‘The Apprentice’ to prove Trump is racially biased

In a move they believe will strengthen their challenge to the Trump administration’s halt on temporary protected status, a Boston civil rights group is demanding outtakes from the reality show “The Apprentice” they allege contain President Trump using racial and ethnic slurs.

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The group Lawyers for Civil Rights is participating in the lawsuit pending before US District Court Judge Denise J. Casper and as part of that litigation, the attorneys subpoenaed MGM and a Trump-related company, Trump Productions LLC.

In a statement, LCR attorney Oren Nimni said one former producer for the reality television show, which made Trump nationally known before his run for office, has previously indicated that Trump made racially charged comments.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/11/14/civil-rights-group-demanding-outtakes-from-the-apprentice-prove-trump-racial-bias/mVdqy0Cl2RyqCvsAqDs25H/story.html

November 20: U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' office for civil rights is reversing itself on several key changes to how it investigates civil rights claims that had infuriated the civil rights community.

Specifically, the department, announced Nov. 20, is 
revising OCR's case-processing manual—the document that guides how cases are handled—to get rid of language that called for investigators to dismiss multiple complaints originating with same source.  What's more, OCR will conduct investigations of complaints that were previously dismissed under the rule change. 
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2018/11/trump-devos-civil-rights-changes-manual-special-education-complaints.html

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