Civil Rights Law

“Savannah is Savannah because of W.W. Law,” Jackson told about 100 people who gathered at the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum Annex to celebrate Law as a “Man for All Seasons” on the 10th anniversary of his death. Law, … Continue reading →

The authorities use sedition laws to curtail free speech and also concoct … and otherwise ill-treated many civil society activists, Human Rights Watch said. They have frequently brought politically motivated charges against them, including …

In January 2012, in Hosannah Tabor v EEOC, it granted a church-affiliated institution broad, First Amendment-based exemptions from federal civil rights laws. As I argued here, the decision in Hosannah Tabor demonstrated the Court’s evolving, results …

The Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965. Historic in nature, the civil rights law sought to end decades of racial discrimination that prevented minorities from fully exercising their constitutional right to vote. In 1982, I helped lead … Continue reading →

a Washington-based civil rights organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, challenging the constitutionality of the new law. The trial seeking a preliminary injunction of the law began …

For Guyot and other veterans of the civil rights movement, today’s battle over new state election laws conjures up painful memories of the movement’s early days. Their efforts in the 1950s and 1960s led to landmark legislation to protect blacks … Continue reading →

“No law respecting an establishment of religion” appears to … and it’s the section of the Constitution that protects the LGBT community in securing our civil rights. As the ACLU says: The ACLU works to ensure that LGBT people have … Continue reading →

For Guyot and other veterans of the civil rights movement, today’s battle over new state election laws conjures up painful memories of the movement’s early days. Their efforts in the 1950s and 1960s led to landmark legislation to protect blacks … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON — Sybil Morial once helped elderly blacks in Louisiana learn the preamble to the Constitution, one of the many requirements she said state officials used as roadblocks decades ago to prevent blacks from voting. “Some of them went …

Conservative activist Star Parker went so far as to describe the gay agenda as not a movement about civil rights but the advancement of the … Parker points out that UCLA law professor and constitutional scholar Eugene Volokh wrote in … Continue reading →