🧵 On my drive back from Oregon yesterday I stopped by the Tule Lake WWII Japanese concentration camp. It is now a vacant lot with only the stone monument seen below to mark the location & history.
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#History #WWII #Japanese #CivilRights #Injustice #Racism #Liberty #America #War

Advocacy groups are key players because they bring most of the lawsuits filed under the provision of the #VotingRightsAct known as #Section2.

But in a #NorthDakota case brought by 2 #NativeAmerican tribes, the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that only the #FederalGovernment can sue to enforce the #law.

The decision conflicted with decades of case law. #SCOTUS blocked it in July, allowing the tribes’ preferred maps to temporarily stay in place.

#VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights

The appeals court’s finding has nevertheless been cited elsewhere, with #Mississippi making a similar argument in another appeal over its state legislative map. #SCOTUS also sent that case back for reconsideration on Monday.

Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson dissented from the decision, writing that both rulings should have been reversed.

#law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #RepresentationMatters

Should have happened a year ago

Judge Bars #ICE From Making #Immigration Arrests at #Courts in #NewYork

The #Trump admin’s practice of detaining immigrants at federal #courthouses [#entrapment] has stirred outrage.

#law #SafeSpace #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #UseOfForce #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
nytimes.com/2026/05/18/nyregio…

#SCOTUS sends closely watched #NativeAmerican #VotingRights decision back to lower court

SCOTUS acted in a #VotingRightsAct case brought by Native American tribes on Monday, saying a closely watched ruling needs to be reconsidered after the high court weakened the #CivilRights era #law.

The justices ordered lower courts to take another look at the decision that went against the tribes & undercut a key enforcement mechanism: lawsuits from voters & advocacy groups.

apnews.com/article/voting-righ…

Our reporting found at least 79 children have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation campaign.

To better understand the chemicals’ effects on children, we spoke with an activist tear-gassed as a teenager at Selma in 1965.
propublica.org/article/charles…

#News #CivilRights #History #BlackMastodon #Children #Immigration #ICE

At 17, He Was Tear-Gassed at Selma. At 78, He’s Watching Kids Tear-Gassed During Trump’s Deportation Campaign.

At least 79 children have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation campaign. Charles Mauldin, a civil rights activist tear-gassed as a teenager at Selma, warns them to get mental health support.

^{Peter.DiCampo@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

After a year-long “investigation”, the #Trump #DOJ concluded that #Yale School of Medicine “discriminated” based on race in its admissions, favoring Black & Hispanic applicants over White & Asian ones, the agency said Thursday.

#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #CivilRights #SCOTUS #WhiteSupremacy
washingtonpost.com/education/2…

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Anti-trans demagogues are increasingly writing criminal penalties into law as a tool to persecute trans Americans:
prismreports.org/2026/05/12/an…

At the same time, the federal government is pushing to violate the privacy of people receiving gender-affirming care:
19thnews.org/2026/05/gender-af…
#politics #USPol #trans #civilRights

A new crop of state laws are ‘leveraging criminalization as a tactic against trans people’

10 states have imposed new misdemeanor or felony penalties since 2022—a stark increase in the use of criminal law to target trans people

^{Kae Petrin (Prism)}

Meanwhile, #Republican lawmakers in #Louisiana & #SouthCarolina also presented congressional #redistricting plans that faced staunch opposition from #CivilRights activists & #Democrats.

#Republicans in Southern states have been moving quickly to try to capitalize on a recent #SCOTUS ruling in a Louisiana case that significantly weakened #VotingRights Act protections for minorities.

#law #ElectionLaw #midterms #vote

#GiftArticle

Internal #ICE records reveal the widespread #UseOfForce in “#detention” centers [#ConcentrationCamps].

Reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents & physical tactics on detainees, including on people demanding adequate water, food & medical care.

#Trump #law #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #fascism #HumanitarianLaw #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #ExcessiveForce #WhiteSupremacy
wapo.st/4tdgBRA

#GiftArticle

#SCOTUS kills #VotingRights

The Supreme Court’s decision to upend a key provision of the #VotingRightsAct [#VRA] has plunged the nation into a dizzying new era of partisan conflict, most likely ushering in a forever #redistricting war that could produce fewer competitive seats in #Congress & further #polarize #US politics.

#law #ElectionLaw #CivilRights #democracy #RepresentationMatters #authoritarianism #illiberalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/poli…

Employment Agency Pushes “#Discrimination” Cases That Match Trump’s Agenda

Field staff at the #EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission [#EEOC] say they are being pressured to bring politically charged cases, even with little evidence.

#Trump #law #RevengePolitics #CivilRights #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #WhiteChristianNationalism
nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/poli…