Aug 20, 2019 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary On July 23, 2019, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray offered testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee stating that the FBI had abandoned use of the “black identity extremism” label and was instead...
Aug 2, 2019 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary On March 21, 2019 H.Res. 246 was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Brad Schneider (IL-D) titled “Opposing Efforts to Delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement Targeting...
Jul 31, 2019 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary On July 23, 2019, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that the Bureau had reorganized its categories that it had used to describe and monitor violent extremism groups in...
Jul 22, 2019 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary In 2018 Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that President Donald J. Trump and other White House officials had violated the First Amendment by blocking a number of Twitter users from the...
Jul 22, 2019 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary On July 9, 2019 the Washington Post reported that Georgetown University Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology had obtained public records that revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
Jul 16, 2019 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary In March 2018 Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced in an internal memorandum that he intended to reinstate a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 national census. A national census questionnaire had not asked the citizenship status question...
