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The Civil Rights Division opened a new investigation into whether Pennsauken is dragging its feet on firearm permits so badly that it amounts to a constitutional violation. It’s another example of the department using civil-rights tools to police local gun policy.
The Justice Department and Labor Department said they secured a settlement with Cloudera over alleged discrimination against qualified U.S. workers in PERM recruitment. The deal includes back pay and a two-year debarment from the program, making this one of the more serious employment-enforcement moves of the day.
The Justice Department and Labor Department announced a coordinated settlement with Cloudera over alleged discrimination against U.S. workers in permanent labor certification hiring. The company now faces a two-year PERM debarment, back pay obligations, and a public enforcement record that undercuts the usual tech-i...
The Justice Department and Labor Department announced a coordinated enforcement resolution with Cloudera tied to allegations that the company discriminated against qualified U.S. workers during permanent labor certification recruiting. The deal includes a two-year PERM debarment and back pay, making it one of the ad...
The Justice Department announced a settlement with Lexington, Mississippi, resolving allegations that the city’s police department engaged in unlawful policing practices. It is another reminder that when local law enforcement drifts into constitutional quicksand, the federal government eventually shows up with paper...
A new lawsuit says the federal government has gathered voter files from at least 47 states and handled them in ways that violate federal law. It is a major challenge to the administration’s increasingly deranged obsession with proving noncitizen voting at national scale.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights approved a report on antisemitism on college campuses, adding to the federal pressure around campus protest politics and discrimination claims.
The Education Department formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX regulation and put the first Trump administration’s 2020 rule back in place, a move that resets campus sex-discrimination policy once again.
The Supreme Court declined to revive an injunction protecting rainbow crosswalks in Florida, leaving LGBTQ symbols vulnerable to state removal policies. It is another small but very visible win for anti-LGBTQ governance.
California enacted a six-bill LGBTQ package that tightens privacy protections and lets the state attorney general intervene when protected health data is subpoenaed. The move is an explicit response to federal targeting and a signal that states are building legal shelter around vulnerable communities.
The EEOC announced multiple August 28 enforcement actions, including a disability-discrimination settlement with American Airlines and a pregnancy-discrimination lawsuit against Dentsu. It is a reminder that while some agencies are busy with performative governance, others are still doing the unglamorous work of enf...
HHS’s civil-rights office launched compliance reviews of five medical schools over possible discrimination concerns. The agency is packaging the move as a merit push, but it is another sign of the administration’s crackdown-driven approach to education policy.
New York City officials publicly opposed the EEOC’s proposed rule to eliminate workforce demographic data collection under the Civil Rights Act.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Washington to press for voting rights and racial justice, an unmistakable sign that the midterm fight is already over the structure of democracy itself.
The Civil Rights Division announced a finding that George Washington University’s medical school intentionally discriminated on the basis of race in admissions. It is a blunt escalation in the administration’s war on race-conscious decision-making, with real consequences for a prestigious professional school.
The FTC said Tuesday it is seeking comment on an enforcement policy statement about personalized pricing, a move that puts data-driven price discrimination squarely back on the agency’s radar. The immediate problem is obvious: consumers have no idea when they’re being sorted and squeezed by opaque algorithms.
Health and Human Services finalized a civil-rights rule that ends disparate-impact liability in its Title VI regulations. The change is a big win for opponents of antidiscrimination enforcement and a major retreat from earlier federal interpretations.
The Federal Trade Commission said it is seeking public comment on an enforcement policy statement about personalized pricing, where companies use personal data to set different prices for different people. The agency is trying to draw a line between ordinary pricing and the kind of surveillance-based price discrimin...
Deloitte agreed to pay $21.5 million to resolve allegations that it misrepresented compliance with federal anti-discrimination law while seeking federal funds. The case matters because it turns civil-rights compliance from a talking point into a financial liability, and because the government says the company’s own ...
The Labor Department announced an enforcement action against Cloudera and suspended processing of its permanent labor certification applications for 180 days over alleged discrimination against American workers.
The Justice Department said it reached a $3.2 million settlement with OpenAI and a subsidiary over allegations of discriminating against U.S. workers in the hiring process. The deal is another sign the administration is leaning hard on workplace citizenship-status enforcement, especially in the tech sector.
The EEOC is now backing away from what looked like a sweeping move to suspend all federal-sector class discrimination claims, calling the order in the case an error in a court filing. The reversal came after a labor union and two prison guards sued over a stalled sexual-harassment case.
The Justice Department’s civil-rights division has been leaning on employers it says screened out U.S. workers, with April 2026 actions against Cloudera and Compunnel showing how citizenship-status hiring rules can turn into enforcement cases fast.
On August 12, a federal judge let core claims proceed in a case accusing LSU’s law school of discriminating against a former student with disabilities. It is a messy institutional embarrassment for a flagship public university that should know better by now.
House Oversight Chairman Brandon Gill announced and then held a July 14, 2026 hearing titled “Combating DEI in American Institutions,” framing DEI as illegal and discriminatory. The committee’s own record shows the hearing was planned and executed as a broad attack on DEI policies, not a response to a fresh enforcem...
The Justice Department said EEOC disparate-impact guidelines are unconstitutional, escalating its war on race-conscious policy. The opinion gives civil-rights and employment enforcement a fresh legal fight and signals more government efforts to hollow out anti-discrimination tools.