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George Mason President Holds Job After Attacks on His Diversity Views

1 août 2025 à 17:43
Republicans are investigating the president, Gregory Washington, and the school over his support for diversity efforts at the university, Virginia’s largest public institution.

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Gregory Washington is the first Black president of George Mason University, Virginia’s largest university by enrollment.
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Andrea Lucas Confirmed to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

31 juillet 2025 à 20:05
Ms. Lucas, who has led efforts to attack diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, was confirmed by the Senate for a second term.

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Andrea Lucas, has led efforts at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to unwind protections for transgender people and scrutinize D.E.I. programs.

Supreme Court, for Now, Pauses Lower Court Decision Limiting Voting Rights Act

24 juillet 2025 à 18:36
The justices paused a lower court order pending a decision on whether the Supreme Court will take up the case, a major challenge to the Voting Rights Act.

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Voters filling in their ballots at voting booths in Bismarck, N.D., in 2022. If the justices agree to hear the North Dakota matter, it will be the second major voting rights case in the upcoming term, which begins in October.

Thomas A. Durkin, Civil Liberties Lawyer for the Reviled, Dies at 78

23 juillet 2025 à 19:44
He relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in public corruption and national security cases, like those at Guantánamo.

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Thomas A. Durkin in 2012. “He represented the damned of the earth,” a colleague said.

Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid

17 juillet 2025 à 17:19
The administration asked the judge in the case to sentence the former officer to essentially the brief time he had served when he was first charged, and three years of supervised release.

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Brett Hankison appearing for his federal trial last October in Louisville, Ky.

Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid

17 juillet 2025 à 12:53
The move was a stunning reversal of Biden-era efforts to address racial disparities in local law enforcement.

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Brett Hankison appearing for his federal trial last October in Louisville, Ky.

Prominent Human Rights Group Flees El Salvador

17 juillet 2025 à 09:34
The group, Cristosal, has investigated prison deaths and torture under President Nayib Bukele. Its employees were threatened and surveilled, its director said.

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Ruth López, the anti-corruption director of Cristosal, leaving a courthouse in June, following her May arrest.
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