Category: Legal Reform

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SCOTUS Fails to Address Racial Preferences in High School Admissions

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Nearly eight months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education, it has refused to extend the ban to K-12 schools. Today the SCOTUS justices refused to review the admissions policy at Virginia’s prestigious Thomas Jefferson ...
Our Lawsuit Against the SEC Over Nasdaq Diversity Rules Will Be Reheard

Our Lawsuit Against the SEC Over Nasdaq Diversity Rules Will Be Reheard

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We received good news today regarding our lawsuit against the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). The New Civil Liberties Alliance, who represents us in the lawsuit, issued a press release: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ...
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Horace Cooper: Father of Fani Willis Spoke Like “David Duke in Blackface”

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"It looked to me like we were watching David Duke in blackface," Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper said after watching the father of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testify about why she might have kept cash on hand in ...
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Horace Cooper: Racial Preferences are Against the Law

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Policies that give preference to people based on the color of their skin are "on very very shaky constitutional grounds," says Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper.  "You are not legally allowed to prefer the race of a person and then ...
Get In Your Lane, SEC

Get In Your Lane, SEC

This week the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for en banc rehearing of our National Center for Public Policy Research v. SEC lawsuit, seeking to "return [the U.S. Securities & ...
Stefan Padfield: How Starbucks Avoided Accountability for Racial Discrimination

Stefan Padfield: How Starbucks Avoided Accountability for Racial Discrimination

FEP Commentary /
For those of you wondering whatever became of our lawsuit against Starbucks, Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield provides an update in a commentary published by The Washington Times. The bottom line: Instead of a judge in Washington State doing ...
Affirmative Action Is Racist and Illegal in Corporate America, Just as It Was in Higher Education

Affirmative Action Is Racist and Illegal in Corporate America, Just as It Was in Higher Education

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On the heels of the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in higher education, conservative activists such as those with our Free Enterprise Project (FEP) are targeting diversity programs at corporations such as Starbucks, Comcast and Amazon. While our lawsuit ...
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Affirmative Action Rulings Signal End of Reparations Debate

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The recent Supreme Court decisions striking down affirmative action in higher education admissions "effectively sound the death knell for the race-based reparations movement," declares Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper. In a commentary published by The Hill, Horace writes: The Students ...
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Horace Cooper: The Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision Also Closes the Door on Race-Based Reparations

Project 21 Commentary /
In one of its final rulings of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down raced-based admissions for colleges and universities (just as we at Project 21 had urged it to do in an amicus brief). In a 6-3 decision, ...
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Will the National Center’s Lawsuit Bring the SEC Back to Neutral?

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In the Wall Street Journal, J.W. Verret discusses the implications of the lawsuit we've brought against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As Verret relays, the SEC -- once a trusted institution -- has become politicized under Biden-appointed Chairman ...

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