The 1965 Voting Rights Act, the crown jewel of modern civil rights laws, revolutionized America.
We recommitted our Justice Department to the enforcement of civil rights laws.
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The Civil Rights Division will continue its efforts to aggressively enforce civil rights laws to give meaning to the promise of equal opportunity.
For now, workers who are bullied based on their race, gender, nationality, or religion may sue under applicable Federal or State civil rights laws.
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As a result, the Civil Rights Division remains actively involved in the enforcement of civil rights laws in a variety of settings relevant to AAPI communities.
"I think he is just going to be very effective in terms of the fair, effective and thoughtful enforcement of our civil rights laws, " she said.
W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, which was one of the boldest regulatory expansions of government since the civil rights laws of the 1960s.
Recently, the Department of Education has also issued guidance to schools, colleges, and universities, making it clear that existing civil rights laws apply to acts of bullying that amount to discriminatory harassment.
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As she grew older she was asked, often and almost obsessively, how much race relations had truly improved in America since the passing of the civil-rights laws.
Davis specifically rejected the employer mandate along conventional constitutional grounds, finding that even employers who operate within a single state can be subjected to federal regulations, much as civil-rights laws apply even to local diners and motels.
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Before his stint at the FEC, von Spakovsky was a political appointee in the voting rights section of the Justice Department, where he worked forcefully for voter identification laws considered anathema by civil rights advocates.
His name, opinions, and sheer moxie were the stuff of headlines for years, for as a voluble man of causes, he was on record as loathing capital punishment, child labor, and the unfair laws depriving women of civil rights.
No one today is compelled to do so, and for the past 38 years, all who have chosen to serve have been volunteers who, at the point of enlistment, have knowingly given up certain of their civil rights and have sworn, as set out above, to uphold the laws that deny them certain rights.
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Remember, it was brave civil rights advocates and their acts of civil disobedience that put an end to heinous Jim Crow laws.
Such civil union laws in most cases provide the same rights of marriage under state law, without actually calling it that.
While urging international donors to support training programmes and capacity-building in the media field, President Karzai assured journalists and reporters that "the government and the laws of Afghanistan will protect their civil and constitutional rights, which include the right to join unions and professional organizations".
Congress has invoked its commerce power to pass a vast array of laws, from the Endangered Species Act to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, often over conservative complaints that such regulation exceeded the intent of the Constitution's framers.
Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private property rights in the nation today.
Local civil rights activists were looking for a test case to challenge the bus segregation laws, and that spring lawyers considered having Ms Colvin sue the bus company.
For years before her arrest, Mrs Parks had been active with local civil rights groups, which were looking for a test case to fight the city's segregation laws.
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