Justice

ACTION: DACA Program Ended by Trump, Sessions

In our August 15th post below, we provided a primer that explained what DACA is and why it exists after President Obama's 2010 DREAM legislation was filibustered by Republicans in Senate to prevent a vote.  We said that by September 5th, DACA was at grave risk of being shut down and nearly a million individuals brought here as children would be deported to countries of birth that have no memory of or connection to.  

AG Jeff Sessions, Dept of Justice Say Civil Rights Law Does Not Protect LGBTQ

The White House continues to take aggressive, bigoted steps towards reducing the role of the federal government in fighting discrimination and protecting minorities.  It is doing so by cutting budgets, dissolving programs and appointing officials unsympathetic to previous practices.  In that post linked here many examples were noted.  Another way the Department of Justice is lessening justice for citizens it exists to protect is described below.

Senator Cory Booker Seeks Justice With New Marijuana Legalization Bill

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is working to proactively improve our nation at a time when most of our energy is spent combating Trump and Republicans to prevent the next awful thing they want to implement. Booker has introduced a bill to legalize marijuana in the U.S. and combat the racial injustices surrounding it at a time when embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions and fellow Republicans are attempting to reverse state legalization.

Justice Department's Civil Rights Division Instructed to Focus on Discrimination Against White College Applicants

If you read the headline of this post or saw the coverage last week and instinctively had a confused look on your face and said "what?" out loud to yourself, you are not alone.  Nothing should surprise us anymore with this administration and their accomplices, but they keep trying. If only we could joke at the abject absurdity of this, but the directive detailed below is anything but a laughing matter as our country takes enormous steps backwards from our quest to be a more perfect Union.

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