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  • Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet

    06/01/2025 1:09:07 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | June 1, 2025 11:24 AM EDT | Julian Mark, Laura Meckler
    For decades, the federal government has used data analysis to ferret out race and sex discrimination, winning court cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing and across American life. Now the Trump administration is working to unwind those same cases.In recent weeks, the Justice Department backed out of an agreement with an Atlanta bank accused of systematically discouraging Black and Latino home buyers from applying for loans. The Education Department terminated an agreement with a South Dakota school district where Native American students were disciplined at higher rates than their White peers. And federal prosecutors have dropped several racial...
  • With his 1776 Commission on patriotism, Trump helped spark a culture war | Trump attempted to use federal power to define how America’s history is taught — and promises to try again.

    09/02/2024 10:33:38 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 35 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | September 2, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT | Laura Meckler
    On a weekend day in the summer of 2020, President Donald Trump phoned his education secretary, Betsy DeVos, out of the blue. DeVos’s focus that summer was the mass disruption the pandemic had inflicted on students, but Trump was worked up about something else: the 1619 Project, a set of essays published in the New York Times that centered slavery in understanding the founding of the nation.In a “rant,” DeVos recalled, Trump wanted to know how the administration could ban it from classrooms.“I had to remind him that the United States does not have a national curriculum, and for good...
  • 'Critical Race Theory' Critic Chris Rufo SHREDS WashPost Hit Piece in Twitter Thread

    06/23/2021 9:56:11 AM PDT · by rktman · 4 replies
    Newsbusters.org ^ | 6/22/2021 1651 hrs EDT | Tim Graham
    The Washington Post bumbled through a Saturday article attacking Christopher Rufo, an investigative journalist and prominent opponent of “critical race theory” in our schools. Rufo took to Twitter to accuse the Post of five lies in the article by reporters Laura Meckler and Josh Dawsey. At least three versions of the story exist at online archive sites like this. Even the Post altered the story from its original errors. But you'd never know how wrong it was by looking at the current version, which only carries this note in small text at the bottom:
  • Hillary Clinton’s VP shortlist has leaked. Here are the pros and cons of each.

    06/16/2016 9:44:09 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 39 replies
    Vox ^ | June 16, 2016 | Dylan Matthews
    On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal’s Laura Meckler and Colleen McCain Nelson broke the news that Hillary Clinton is vetting Elizabeth Warren for the vice presidency — but not vetting Bernie Sanders. In the process, they provided a shortlist of candidates that Clinton is considering: Beyond the Massachusetts senator, other prospective candidates include Labor Secretary Tom Perez; Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro; Sens. Tim Kaine of Virginia, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Cory Booker of New Jersey; Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and Reps. Xavier Becerra of California and Tim Ryan of Ohio, several Democrats said. Now, this...
  • Boehner and House Republicans Aim to Pass Immigration Bill by Summer

    04/23/2014 5:55:59 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 32 replies
    thenewamerican.com ^ | 4/22/14 | Warren Mass
    Speaker of the House John Boehner, speaking to a group of donors at a Republican Party fundraiser last month, pledged that the House would pass several immigration bills this summer. Several attendees at the fundraiser told the Wall Street Journal’s Laura Meckler that Boehner said he was “hellbent on getting this done this year.” One of Boehner’s House colleagues, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said during a recent trip to Silicon Valley that legislative action this year was “entirely possible,” with the House likely voting this summer on five to seven immigration bills....