Category: Legal Reform

New York Times

Shareholders Demand New York Times Records After Commentary Alleging Palestinian Abuse

Press Release /
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 ...
Supreme Court

Curtis Hill: SCOTUS Ruling Against Race-Based Gerrymandering Reaffirms America’s Colorblind Constitution

Project 21 Commentary /
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

Project 21 Commentary /
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

Project 21 Commentary /
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 ...
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Horace Cooper: Protect Black Communities — Don’t Decriminalize and Mainstream Marijuana

Project 21 Commentary /
"Black youth — and all young Americans — cannot afford the broad acceptance and normalization of marijuana," writes Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper in a commentary published at The Hill. "States that have relaxed marijuana laws should take a hard ...
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Horace Cooper: GOP Built Antitrust, Trump Bringing It Back to Life

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"I truly feel that, for the first time in my life, the federal government is approaching antitrust policy in the manner that it was intended," writes Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper in a commentary published at Newsmax. "Trump's antitrust team ...
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Craig DeLuz: Supreme Court Defends Constitutional Limits in Recent Rulings

Project 21 Commentary /
Three recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions "collectively illustrate the Supreme Court’s commitment to conservative jurisprudence, upholding individual liberties, promoting religious freedoms and strengthening parental rights," writes Project 21 Ambassador Craig DeLuz in a commentary published at The Detroit News. Read ...
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Bennett Nuss: Missouri v. Starbucks May Be the Blueprint for a Federal Anti-DEI Campaign

FEP Commentary /
In the commentary below, Free Enterprise Project Associate Bennett Nuss encourages us to examine the line of attack that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is using in a complaint against Starbucks's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, noting "that there ...