HOPE Fair Housing Center argues in a new federal complaint that an Illinois landlord's blanket refusal to rent to people with eviction records amounts to illegal sex and race discrimination.
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If activists want to help young people, they should start before college.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live discussion of the Court's recent rulings on affirmative action and same-sex wedding services.
The speech compulsion it forbids is not limited to wedding-website designers who object to same-sex marriage, but its principles should apply only to a narrow range of commercial products
The decision reverses a terrible previous decision by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The answer's more complicated than you might think.
Joseph Zamora spent nearly two years in prison after being convicted of assaulting police officers. The Washington Supreme Court overturned his conviction, but local prosecutors want to charge him again to show him the "improperness of his behavior."
The decision sets a dangerous precedent licensing the use of facially neutral policies to discriminate against minorities in various contexts.
In a federal lawsuit on behalf of legal U.S. residents from China, the ACLU argues that "Florida's New Alien Land Law" is unconstitutional.
"When the government picks and chooses among religions," the lawsuit reads, "religious liberty is threatened for all."
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"KCPD has continuously and repeatedly advised Plaintiff and his fellow officers that if they did not fulfill a 'ticket quota' then they would be kicked out of the unit," the complaint states.
Two New Jersey women who gave birth last fall suffered harrowing ordeals thanks to their breakfast choices.
Conflict between Irish-Americans and WASPs was once a major feature of American politics. Its near-total disappearance is a hopeful development that we can learn from.
"If I disagreed or offered another opinion, I was told I had cognitive dissonance," Josh Diemert says.
"Hamline subjected López Prater to the foregoing adverse actions because . . . she did not conform her conduct to the specific beliefs of a Muslim sect," the lawsuit states.
The first FBI director wasn't all bad (or a cross-dresser). But he and the agency he created regularly flouted constitutional limits on power.
A website designer asks SCOTUS to let her eschew work that contradicts her opposition to gay marriage.
The deal includes several amendments to the original draft legislation that are unlikely to have much substantive effect.
Gun control is 'the most racist practice in America,' says the Philadelphia native and community leader.
But Bank of America's Community Affordable Loan Solution program will likely be a gentrification accelerating machine.
Florida’s governor claims unconstitutional powers that could be used to promote the "far-left" policies he decries.
How do you justify government speech mandates? Apparently, you deliberately pretend that businesses have no right to control the messages they choose to present.
A prominent academic expert on both same-sex marriage and full faith and credit weighs in.
Does the bipartisan act protecting same-sex marriage run afoul of constitutional federalism principles? The answer is definitely not with respect to one of its provisions, and probably not with respect to the other.
Anti-discrimination law was pioneered by the political left. But, in recent years, conservatives have increasingly tried to use it for their own purposes.
The decision is an important victory for both the principle of nondiscrimination and parents and students seeking better educational opportunities.
Critics are right to point out that some Western nations are treating Ukrainian refugees better than those fleeing similar horrific situations elsewhere. But the right way to address the problem is to increase openness to other refugees, not exclude Ukrainians.
In a forceful concurring opinion, he argues the Supreme Court should overrule longstanding precedents denying many constitutional rights to residents of Puerto Rico and other "unincorporated" US territories. Gorsuch is absolutely right. But he would do well to cast the same critical gaze on the very similar precedents that exempt immigration restrictions from normal constitutional scrutiny.
It’s about a lot more than transgender girls’ participation in sports under Title IX, but expect that controversy to dominate the discussion.
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Nearly 90 gag-order bills would ban schools from teaching the grisly particulars of American history. This activist is fighting against the censorship and for school choice.
H.B. 2802 would expand discrimination protections but would carve out religious institutions.
Should Whole Foods be allowed to stop staff from wearing Black Lives Matter masks on the job?
The Inconvenient Minority author and head of Color Us United says it's time for the country to become truly colorblind.
Forget Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi, and The 1619 Project. Start with ending the drug war, says the Columbia University linguist.
The New York Times columnist and Columbia University linguist on the "new religion" he says has "betrayed Black America."
The government argues that the company is violating the ADA by charging wait fees to disabled customers who take longer to board vehicles.
A federal judge concluded that the Texas governor's ban on mask mandates illegally discriminated against students with disabilities.
Justices have mostly demurred on the question of whether anti-discrimination laws trump religious freedom.
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