Category: Legal Reform

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Corporations Cling to COVID-Era Virtual Meetings to Avoid Shareholder Scrutiny; Activist Investors Demand Change

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Washington, D.C. — A new petition submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission demands that the SEC issue guidance to publicly traded companies regarding the widespread abuse of virtual shareholder meetings. The petition, submitted by the National Center for ...
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Curtis Hill: Supreme Court Cheapens Citizenship: A Misreading of the 14th Amendment’s Purpose

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"American citizenship has never been — and must never become — a trivial thing granted by the accident of geography alone," writes former Indiana Attorney General Curtis T. Hill, Jr., who now serves with the Free Enterprise Project and Project ...
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Black Conservatives Cheer Supreme Court Protection of Women’s Sports

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In a major victory for common sense and women's rights, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that states can protect girls' and women's sports by reserving them for biological females. Black conservatives with the Project 21 network call this decision ...
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Black Conservatives Denounce Supreme Court Decision on Birthright Citizenship

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Today the U.S. Supreme Court refused to reconsider the broad interpretation of birthright citizenship that has governed U.S. immigration policy for decades, rejecting President Donald Trump’s effort to limit automatic citizenship for children born to parents who are unlawfully or ...
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Shareholders Demand New York Times Records After Commentary Alleging Palestinian Abuse

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Washington, D.C. — The National Center for Public Policy Research, a shareholder of The New York Times Company, has formally demanded access to Times books and records to investigate whether the newspaper's board of directors and senior management adequately fulfilled ...
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Curtis Hill: SCOTUS Ruling Against Race-Based Gerrymandering Reaffirms America’s Colorblind Constitution

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Last week's Supreme Court decision "directly attacks the racist stereotyping that has infected redistricting for too long," writes former Indiana Attorney General Curtis T. Hill, Jr. "For decades, mapmakers have operated on the crude assumption that black voters form a monolithic ...
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Curtis Hill: SPLC Finally Faces A Reckoning For The Political Violence It Stoked

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"The indictment against the SPLC is a long-overdue reckoning," writes Curtis T. Hill, Jr. at The Federalist. "And paired with this weekend’s assassination attempt, it should serve as a clear warning: Those who weaponize the language of justice while violating ...
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Black Activists Cheer Today’s Supreme Court Decision on the Voting Rights Act

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Washington, D.C. — After the U.S. Supreme Court today limited the use of race in the way voting maps are drawn, black conservatives with the National Center for Public Policy Research's Project 21 black leadership network agreed that the time ...
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SCOTUS Tariff Ruling: Experts Decode the Economic and Legal Fallout

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Was SCOTUS correct in its tariff ruling? Economic and legal experts with the Project 21 black leadership network are weighing in on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down President Trump's tariffs. Curtis Hill, Project 21 Ambassador and Former Indiana Attorney ...
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Realigning the Voting Rights Act Would Preserve the VRA’s Legacy

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The U.S. Supreme Court is reexamining the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 -- especially Section 2, which prohibits voting practices that discriminate on the basis of race.  Louisiana v. Callais questions whether the creation of a second majority-black congressional district ...