News From A Colorful Perspective
Attorney General William Barr announced a $1.5 million plan to recover Native American people who have gone missing. He unveiled the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative Friday at a meeting with tribal and law enforcement officials at the Flathead Reservation in Montana. Indigenous people — especially women — go…
The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston in Texas wants to become a foster care provider, but only if it is exempt from a federal rule preventing LGBTQ discrimination in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grants. It filed a lawsuit alongside the Texas Attorney General challenging the law on the…
Two guards who were delegated to monitor Jeffrey Epstein on the night of his alleged suicide were suspended. The warden at the Metropolitan Correctional Center has also been reassigned to Washington D.C. by the Justice Department pending the investigation into his death, according to a story published by BBC. The…
Eric Garner was killed five years ago, but without real justice, his story remains in the spotlight. New York Police Department spokesman announced Aug. 2 that they had suspended Daniel Pantaleo, the white officer who killed Garner by using an illegal chokehold to restrain him as he yelled “I can’t…
The Justice Department will reinstate the death penalty at the federal level, according to an announcement made by Attorney General William Barr on July 25. Previously, there hadn’t been any federal executions in sixteen years. Attorney General William Barr quickly moved to schedule five executions after the announcement. Under his…
Five years ago, Eric Garner’s dying words “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry for Black Lives Matter activists and those protesting police brutality against people of color. A day before the fifth anniversary of Garner’s death, Attorney General William Barr ordered that the charges against Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD…
In a 52-47 vote late Wednesday, largely along party lines, the U.S. Senate confirmed Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as the nation’s next attorney general. Despite strong opposition from lawmakers, citizens and civil rights groups across the spectrum from the NAACP to the HRC and ACLU Sessions will lead the U.S….
The allegations of racism against U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions are a result of the Democrats’ “war on whites,” according to Alabama’s Republican Rep. Mo Brooks. “It’s really about political power and racial division and what I refer to, on occasion, as the ‘war on whites,’” Brooks said on “The Morning…
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions has such a poor record on civil rights that, for the first time in U.S. Senate history, a sitting senator will testify against him Wednesday in his bid to become the nation’s next attorney general. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker on Monday said he felt compelled…
A coalition of 1,330 law professors signed a letter urging members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as United States Attorney General for President-elect Donald Trump. “As law faculty who work every day to better understand the law and teach it to our students, we…
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