With Manhattan Institute, the ACR Project filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court. It asks the Justices to take a case and use it to free litigants from the standing trap (a pure catch-22) the Fourth Circuit has created to prevent challenges to racially discriminatory governmental presumptions. The post ACR Project and Manhattan Institute File Amicus Brief Supporting Petition for Cert in Challenge to Discriminatory SBA Program appeared first on American Civil Rights Project.| American Civil Rights Project
For NAS and FASORP, the ACR Project filed to join Tennessee's challenge to the Hispanic Serving Institutions programs' discriminatory criteria.| American Civil Rights Project
Today we warned Auburn University and the Auburn University Foundation that their racially exclusive scholarships violate the U.S. Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, among other federal civil rights laws. The post ACR Project Warns Auburn University & the Auburn University Foundation of the Unconstitutionality of Their Race-Based Scholarships appeared first on American Civil Rights Project.| American Civil Rights Project
Sacramento County has settled our challenge to its so-called “guaranteed income” program that unlawfully chose beneficiaries based on race.| American Civil Rights Project
Today, the ACR Project published a new Issue Guide--Fair Play: How the Law Protects Employees Disclosing Discrimination (Even the Fashionable "Woke" Kind) from Retaliation. You can download the full document below. Why Should I? Americans enjoy broad protections (at the state, federal, and sometimes even local levels) against discrimination (especially in the workplace). Despite these [...] The post Issue Guide–Fair Play: How the Law Protects Employees Disclosing Discrimination (Even th...| American Civil Rights Project
For more than fifty years—ever since the Supreme Court decided Griggs v. Duke Power Co.[1]—almost all legal commentators have accepted that decision’s insistence that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 imposes liability on employers for policies that yield disparate impacts across different groups defined by their race, color, national origin, religion, [...] The post Disparate-Impact Liability: Unfounded, Unconstitutional, & Not Long For This World appeared first on American Civ...| American Civil Rights Project
On May 21, 2025, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Higher Education & Workforce Development heard testimony from our ED Dan Morenoff at its second hearing on Restoring Excellence: the Case Against DEI. You can read the full version of his written testimony, below (or at the Committee's website). Or watch the full hearing, here. Mr. [...] The post Dan Morenoff Testifies Before House Higher Education & Workforce Development Subcommittee on Patterns of Illegal Discrimination Across Higher Educati...| American Civil Rights Project
Despite clear state and federal law, Weber State remains "not shy about continuing to pursue the goal" of obtaining a particular racial balance. They should be. To help get them there, the ACR Project filed a Title VI complaint with DOJ and the U.S. Department of Education. The post ACR Project Files Title VI Complaint Against Weber State University appeared first on American Civil Rights Project.| American Civil Rights Project
If the California Legislature is in session, some member is proposing the unconstitutional favoring of individuals based on ancestry. This session, that's again a winning bet (however the people of California must feel about that fact). Once more, Assemblymembers and Senators have proposed a whole slate of discriminatory bills (and one discriminatory state constitutional amendment). We've submitted letters to both chambers expressing concerns with the legality and constitutionality of a h...| American Civil Rights Project
At least two cheers for the Ninth Circuit. Its opinion on the legality of states separating their school bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers by sex puts it (less thoroughly, but clearly) on the right side of the entrenched Circuit split over the correct reading of Title IX (effectively with the 11th Circuit, against the 4th and 7th Circuits). The post UPDATE: 9th Circuit Correctly Upholds Idaho Law Requiring Use of One’s Own Single Sex Bathroom, Locker Room, and Shower appeared first on ...| American Civil Rights Project
In U.S. v. Skrmetti, the Biden Administration would have the Court declare that the Equal Protection Clause prevents states from protecting children from potentially harmful medical interventions, when those interventions are related to children’s purported “gender identities.” In the brief we filed today, we explain that this is wrong, regardless of what the Court decides a potentially ephemeral “gender identity” at odds with one’s biological sex legally is and–as a result of t...| American Civil Rights Project
Today, the ACR Project alerted the House and Senate to the clear unconstitutionality of programs they should defund and repeal. ACR Project Chairman Gail Heriot, E.D. Dan Morenoff, and Director Peter Kirsanow signed the letters, which you can read, below. They concern the Minority Serving Institutions ("MSI") programs and their approximately billion dollars in annual funding.| American Civil Rights Project