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

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order titled "Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy" that ...

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would further weaken civil rights protections and make it ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive ...

On April 23, 2025, the President issued an Executive Order (“EO”) titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” ...

Trump's new executive order aims to eliminate disparate-impact liability, reshaping federal civil rights enforcement.

His executive order can be reversed by a hostile successor administration; the disparate-impact regime can be resurrected with another flip of the presidential pen. The White House needs to persuade ...

President Trump has taken steps to nullify a key component to the Civil Rights Act as he works to remove diversity, equity and inclusion policies from the federal government. One of the executive ...

Discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin in the U.S. Armed Forces was abolished by Harry Truman’s 1948 Executive order 9981 ... of the 1957 Civil Rights Act ...