US EditionTrump’s early agenda dismantles Civil Rights Act, advances Project 2025, activists say
- President Donald Trump's Justice Department lifted a Louisiana school desegregation order in early 2025 and initiated rollbacks of civil rights protections across federal agencies.
- These actions followed a conservative agenda dubbed Project 2025, aiming to dismantle federal agencies and reform civil rights enforcement by challenging longstanding legal frameworks.
- Trump's administration eliminated diversity and equity initiatives, closed civil rights offices, fired related staff, and signed an executive order modifying disparate impact regulations under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
- Activists described these moves as 'Project 2025 on steroids' causing unprecedented damage, warning that reversing decades of protections risks harming Black students and undermining efforts to address systemic discrimination.
- The administration’s changes triggered multiple lawsuits and fueled calls for legal and societal challenges to preserve civil rights safeguards and pursue national reconciliation.
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Civil Rights Watchdog under Assault by Trump Administration
Click to expand Image People pass the Department of Justice during a march against Trump administration policies in Washington, DC, March 4, 2025. © 2025 Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP Photo One of the most effective and enduring institutions won by the Civil Rights Movement – the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice – is under assault.The Trump administration is attempting to remake the department to serve its ideolo…
Huey Perry: Trump is doing exactly what Project 2025 laid out (Opinion)
There was a time when Project 2025, the sweeping plan developed by the Heritage Foundation and over 100 right-wing organizations, was dismissed by many as just a theoretical document, too extreme to take seriously. That time is over.
Biden and Harris's Ignored Influence: Trump Aligned With Project 2025 - Real News Now
Despite persistently disassociating himself from the Project 2025 while on his campaign voyage, substantial similarities have been noticed between this initiative and President Donald Trump’s secondary stint in office. The likeness caught people’s attention due to the initiatives bold declaration for a significant cutback and alteration of the federal government’s scope. There was considerable hullabaloo about Project 2025 in the months leading …
Donald Trump, Executive Overreach, And Project 2025’s Blueprint
Source: ALEX WROBLEWSKI / Getty They told us it couldn’t happen here. That American democracy was too strong, too sacred, too unshakable to fall prey to authoritarianism, but with each executive order, federal raid, and disregard for due process, Donald Trump isn’t just challenging that belief; he’s proving it wrong. What we’re witnessing isn’t a chaotic second term, it’s the execution of a well-organized blueprint called Project 2025 — a politi…
5 Reasons We Should Be Very Scared About Trump's Attempt to Segregate Schools Again
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana last week. The administration said that that the fact that the order was still on the books was a “historical wrong.” They also said that they were looking to end other desegregation orders that put “an unnecessary burden on…Read more...
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