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For those who think that elections don't have consequences and we are no worse under trump.
Here's a list of Obama-era civil rights initiatives and rules that the Trump admin has rolled back so far:
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposed the following Trump nominees:
Confirmed:
Trump Officials Reverse Obama’s Policy on Affirmative Action in Schools
Here's a list of Obama-era civil rights initiatives and rules that the Trump admin has rolled back so far:
- One of the first things Trump did when he got into office was reverse Obama's criminal justice initiatives related to closing private federal prisons and he also stopped all investigations into police departments having been excused of brutality.
- He had the Justice Department drop its long-standing positions and investigations into voter ID laws meant to keep blacks from voting.
- Trump's Department of Housing and Urban Development rescinded a proposed Obama-era rule that would have required more justification for public housing agencies seeking to demolish public housing projects in urban communities.
- Trump reversed a rule requiring large companies to report worker pay by race and gender in order to decrease the wage gap through greater pay transparency.
- Repealed Obama-era regulation that restricted drug-testing for job seekers receiving unemployment benefits.
- Trump rescinded Obama’s 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces meant to apply 14 labor and civil rights laws to federal contractors, who now will no longer have to provide documentation of their workplace practices.
- Rescinded an Obama-era Justice Department letter that asked local courts across the country to be wary of slapping poor defendants with fines and fees to fill their jurisdictions’ coffers.
- The Department of Labor changed its interpretation of a law regulating when contractors can be held liable for employment and civil rights law violations
- Overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered Justice Department officials to nix reform agreements with troubled police forces nationwide.
- Gutted Lifeline, the program dedicated to bringing phone and internet service within reach for people of color, low-income people, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities, with particularly egregious consequences for tribal areas. They also voted to eliminate several rules promoting competition and diversity in the broadcast media, undermining ownership chances for women and people of color.
- the Trump administration announced it would terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation in 18 months for approximately 59,000 Haitians living in the United States.
- the Trump administration released new guidelines that allow states to seek waivers to require Medicaid recipients to work – requirements that represent a throwback to rejected racial stereotypes.
- the administration announced its decision to bar citizens from Haiti from receiving H2-A and H2-B visas.
- the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education released a new Case Processing Manual (CPM) that creates greater hurdles for people filing complaints and allows dismissal of civil rights complaints based on the number of times an individual has filed.
- Attorney General Sessions announced the Justice Department’s ‘school safety’ plan – a plan that civil rights advocates criticized as militarizing schools, overpolicing children, and harming students, disproportionately students of color.
- Secretary Ben Carson proposed changes to federal housing subsidies that could triple rent for some households in urban communities and make it easier to impose work requirements.
- the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it would be publishing three separate notices to indefinitely suspend implementation of the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.
- Secretary Ben Carson proposed changes to the Obama-era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which aimed to combat segregation in housing policy.
- the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest opposing a consent decree negotiated by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to overhaul the Chicago Police Department.
- the Department of Justice ended its agreement to monitor the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County and the Shelby County Detention Center in Tennessee, which addressed discrimination against Black youth, unsafe conditions, and no due process at hearings.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposed the following Trump nominees:
Confirmed:
- Alex Acosta, Secretary of Labor (could not support, urged ‘no’ vote)
- Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Michael Brennan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- John Bush, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Amy Coney Barrett, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education
- Eric Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Department of Justice
- Stuart Kyle Duncan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Allison Eid, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- Charles Goodwin, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
- Neil Gorsuch, U.S. Supreme Court
- Britt Grant, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Leonard Steven Grasz, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Marvin Kaplan, National Labor Relations Board
- Gregory Katsas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court
- Jonathan Kobes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Kathy Kraninger, Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Joan Larsen, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Ken Marcus, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education
- Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury
- Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget
- John Nalbandian, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Mark Norris, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
- Andrew Oldham, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Patrick Pizzella, Deputy Secretary of Labor
- Michael Pompeo, Secretary of State
- David Porter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Tom Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services (resigned)
- Jeff Sessions, Attorney General
- David Stras, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Holly Teeter, U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
- Don Willett, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Trump Officials Reverse Obama’s Policy on Affirmative Action in Schools
