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The guiding philosophy of President JOE BIDEN is simple: prioritization.
“As you’ve all observed,” Biden said in March, “successful presidents better than me have been successful, in large part, because they know how to time what they’re doing order it, decide and prioritize what needs to be done.”
The Obama administration insisted the letter was for guidance purposes only and did not carry the force of law but many college presidents told InsideHigherEd and other publications they interpreted it as a clear warning.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a libertarian group that has criticized the Obama administration’s enforcement of Title IX civil rights regulations said it was dismayed with Mr. Biden’s choice which it characterized as “a return to old, failed policies.”
“Under Lhamon’s leadership, the Office for Civil Rights enforced guidance that gutted due process protections and violated the First Amendment,” FIRE said in a statement. “Lhamon used that guidance to pressure institutions to restrict constitutionally protected speech and disregard basic procedural protections in campus disciplinary hearings.”
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WASHINGTON, May 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has established five new advisory committees in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.
Additionally, the Commission is seeking nominations of qualified and bipartisan candidates who reside in these particular territories for consideration for appointment as voluntary Special Government Employees of these advisory committees.
The Commission is currently accepting nominations and applications to each of the five U.S. Territory advisory committees. The committees are composed of 11 to 15 members and must be bipartisan with a diversity of viewpoints and experiences. The Commission will appoint the members of each committee to a four-year term by majority vote of the Commission s Commissioners. The Commission will also appoint the Chair of each committee. Each committee will hold at least four meetings per calendar year e
Professor of Law, Civil Rights Advocate, State’s 1st Latino Supreme Court Justice
by Carla Meyer and Karen Nikos-Rose
May 09, 2021
Cruz Reynoso, the trailblazing lawyer, jurist, law professor and the first Latino California Supreme Court justice, has died at age 90. He died Friday (May 7) at an elder care facility in Oroville, according to his family. Cause of death had not been determined.
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
In lieu of flowers, the Reynoso family asks for contributions to the Cruz and Jeannene Reynoso Scholarship for Legal Access at the UC Davis School of Law.
Memorial arrangements are pending.
A University of California, Davis, School of Law professor from 2001 to 2006, he remained devoted to the law school, and the University of California, as an emeritus professor teaching students, speaking at events and leading special projects until recently. To the School of Law community, he was the civil rights icon who always had a moment to talk in the halls, about the law, publ
Jonathan Feingold, Associate Professor of Law at the Boston University, discusses the Chauvin verdict and applicable lessons from Brown v. Board of Education as the United States move forward.
On April 20, 2021, a jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for murdering George Floyd. Following the trial, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw reflected that “until the very moment the verdict was read, it was an entirely open question whether, to paraphrase the Supreme Court’s decision in
Dred Scott, Black people had rights that anyone was bound to respect.” Crenshaw’s words underscore that no matter the evidence not even video of knee on neck the trial confronted an American script in which accountability so often eludes the annihilation of Black bodies. And as Devon Carbado reminds us, the law is not a passive bystander in this script, but rather facilitates and immunizes police violence a “co-conspirator” of sorts. Even so, the jury delivered the “right v