In another blow to civil rights under the Trump administration, the Department of Justice’s civil rights division has reassigned all managers working in the department’s voting section and suspended all active investigations being handled by the unit. According to a Monday report from The Guardian, last week Tamar Hagler, chief …
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday over Tennessee’s ban on teenagers’ access to hormone treatments and puberty blockers supporting their transition. In April of last year, the Justice Department sued Tennessee, arguing that SB1 — a law banning access to hormone therapy for adolescents in the state — …
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WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was on a roll, seeming to thoroughly enjoy himself as he commanded the stage at the annual black-tie dinner gala hosted by the Federalist Society in Washington, D.C. The Nov. 14 dinner came midway through the organization’s three-day National Lawyers Convention, a gathering …
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Back in February 1960 in Nashville, a group of mostly Black college students famously took seats at the lunch counter of Woolworth’s five-and-dime downtown to stage a nonviolent protest against segregation. Next month, the historic building will become home to shirtless men in G-strings. According to The Tennessean, the Thunder …
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Samuel L. Jackson, Jeffrey Wright, and David Oyelowo have all portrayed civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., whose Atlanta sit-ins, Montgomery bus boycotts, and peaceful protests desegregated the nation. When Kelvin Harrison Jr. was first offered the role, he was overwhelmed by the weight of the historical figure and …
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Ahead of Martin Luther King Day, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his family’s role in authorizing government surveillance ofthe civil rights leader. The presidential hopeful told Politico on Sunday that his father, Robert F. Kennedy, who authorized the wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr. while attorney general, and President John …
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I’ve worked with protest demonstrators of all kinds throughout my legal career in Georgia. What’s happening around the planned police training facility — referred to by opponents as “Cop City” — is the largest, most sustained attack on free speech since the Civil Rights Movement. It intensified earlier this month, …
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