From today’s The Hill: The Republican-controlled House Oversight and Accountability Committee has disbanded the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which focused on issues including voting rights, freedom of…
From today’s Washington Post: A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that hundreds of thousands of felons in Florida who still owe fines and fees may not register to vote,…
From Houston Public Media/NPR Online: Hundreds of civil rights organizations are calling on state governments to expand absentee voting in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. In Texas, that may…
From today’s CBS News Online: In its latest rollback of key safeguards for LGBTQ civil rights, the Trump administration intends to remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people by adding religious…
From today’s New York Times: In the mid-1960s, when my father was a teenager, he was arrested. His crime? Registering black voters in Mississippi. He and my mother had joined…
Last Week U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama Administration would no longer defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). DOMA was passed in 1996…