If nothing else is clear here, at least this one thing is: the current United States Department of "Justice" is going out of its way – over and over – to deny people civil rights.
The New York Times today reported that the Department of Justice has assigned a federal prosecutor to assist in the hate crime prosecution of Kedarie/Kandicee Johnson’s murderer. The African-American Iowa teen identified as both transgender and gender-fluid.
Today the attorneys general of 17 states and the District of Columbia joined Lambda Legal to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to decide once and for all whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects LGBT individuals from discrimination on the job.
Today 76 businesses, legal scholars and the nation’s leading LGBT rights organizations joined Lambda Legal in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to finally decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits sexual orientation discrimination on the job.
Our justice system should be designed to treat all people equally. Yet that does not happen for the estimated 450,000 Americans who remain in pretrial detention because they cannot afford to pay costly bail.