President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who ...

A group of civil rights and legal ... violate detainees' due process rights under the Fifth Amendment and their First Amendment right to free speech. "Denying detained immigrants access to legal ...

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Affirmative Action – When Civil Rights Became State-Mandated Racism. If true equality means judging people by their individual merit, then what do you call a system that forces race-based preferences ...

(The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., introduced legislation to stop what he calls "predatory litigation financing," but critics on the right are raising concerns about the First ...

WASHINGTON — In his drive to purge diversity efforts in the federal government and beyond, President Donald Trump has expressed outright hostility to civil rights protections. He ordered federal ...

(CNN) — The Trump administration alleged Thursday that Columbia University violated federal civil rights law by acting with “deliberate indifference” towards harassment of Jewish students on ...

And it paid off with Tuesday's decision. Libby called the battle a 'civil rights' case in an interview with Fox News Digital. "I most certainly do believe this is a civil rights issue for Maine ...

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said Monday that it was opening an investigation into the city of Chicago after Mayor Brandon Johnson's comments Sunday highlighting prominent ...

The Justice Department Monday opened a civil rights investigation into Chicago’s hiring practices a day after Johnson boasted during an appearance at the Apostolic Church of God in Woodlawn ...

including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the American Convention on Human Rights, which oblige the State to protect all ...

It is the Trump administration’s latest effort to remake the department’s civil rights division, which has historically worked to fight discrimination against minorities. By Devlin Barrett ...