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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
-- 2016 --
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
-- 2017 --
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
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
-- 2018 --
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
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
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/
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/
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
October 11: The Senate Oct. 11 confirmed
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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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