Category: Racial Justice

Trump administration seeks to end all federal contracts with Harvard 0

Trump administration seeks to end all federal contracts with Harvard

The administration is instructing federal agencies to “seek alternative vendors for future services where you had previously considered Harvard.” The Trump administration intends to ask all federal agencies to seek ways to end their...

Judge blocks Trump administration’s bar on Harvard from accepting international students 0

Judge blocks Trump administration’s bar on Harvard from accepting international students

Ivy league had filed suit saying the government’s ban was unconstitutional retaliation for defying White House’s demands A US federal judge on Friday blocked the government from revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign...

House passes Trump's deficit-swelling tax bill, with big Medicaid changes 0

House passes Trump’s deficit-swelling tax bill, with big Medicaid changes

The House proposal would enact President Donald Trump’s major campaign promises while dramatically changing Medicaid, food benefits, income taxes and border security. WASHINGTON – Americans could see major changes to Medicaid, food stamps, border...

Justice Department moves to cancel police reform settlements reached with Minneapolis and Louisville 0

Justice Department moves to cancel police reform settlements reached with Minneapolis and Louisville

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department moved Wednesday to cancel settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville that called for an overhaul of their police departments following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor that...

Libraries are cutting back on staff and services after Trump’s order to dismantle small agency 0

Libraries are cutting back on staff and services after Trump’s order to dismantle small agency

Libraries across the United States are cutting back on e-books, audiobooks and loan programs after the Trump administration suspended millions of dollars in federal grants as it tries to dissolve the Institute of Museum...

House Republicans float compromise to placate warring factions: Faster Medicaid cuts and a larger SALT deduction 0

House Republicans float compromise to placate warring factions: Faster Medicaid cuts and a larger SALT deduction

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is exploring ways to placate two rival factions who have emerged as the biggest roadblocks in the House to a massive bill for President Donald Trump’s agenda: blue-state...

ICE Duped a Federal Judge Into Allowing Raid on Columbia Student Dorms 0

ICE Duped a Federal Judge Into Allowing Raid on Columbia Student Dorms

As part of the Trump administration’s targeting of Columbia University students for deportation, a high-ranking Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent submitted a wildly inaccurate affidavit to a federal judge to get a search warrant,...

Birthright citizenship dispute at the Supreme Court has broad implications for Trump's agenda

Birthright citizenship dispute at the Supreme Court has broad implications for Trump’s agenda

A long-simmering issue — individual federal judges blocking policies nationwide — is taking center stage Thursday in oral arguments. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court could give a major boost to the Trump administration’s muscular...

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