Category: Legal Reform

Don’t Support Trump View on School Admissions? Maybe You’re the Racist!

Don’t Support Trump View on School Admissions? Maybe You’re the Racist!

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Legal guidance from the federal government favoring race preferences in college and university admissions was wiped away by the Trump Administration. Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper says that’s a good thing, and he questioned those who insist affirmative action policies are ...
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Give Blacks Equal Voting Rights: Put an End to Schemes That Dilute the Black Vote, Black Leaders Say

Give Blacks Equal Voting Rights: Put an End to Schemes That Dilute the Black Vote, Black Leaders Say

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Washington, DC - Although poll taxes and literacy tests have been illegal for many decades, blacks are still being denied their rights to fully participate in elections today, according to the black leadership network Project 21. While the techniques used now to ...
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Liberal Justices’ Different Standard for Judging Trump, Obama Statements

Liberal Justices’ Different Standard for Judging Trump, Obama Statements

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National Center Senior Fellow Horace Cooper says the Constitution won out over emotionalism when the U.S. Supreme Court voted to keep President Donald Trump’s travel security orders in place. In an interview published by Newsweek, Horace also noted that the Supreme ...
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Pardon Me, Mr. President! by Emery McClendon

Pardon Me, Mr. President! by Emery McClendon

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We often say “pardon me” after accidentally inconveniencing or offending someone. It’s also a polite expression to ask for someone to repeat something. But we now seem more accustomed to using the term pardon in the context of the power ...
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Redemption: It's Time for Trump to Pardon Model Prisoners Serving Time for Low-Level Crimes, by Council Nedd II

Redemption: It’s Time for Trump to Pardon Model Prisoners Serving Time for Low-Level Crimes, by Council Nedd II

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Last December, President Donald Trump first exercised his power to pardon by commuting the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin. The kosher meatpacking executive received 27 years in prison for money laundering. Rubashkin’s pardon was championed by members of Congress, former attorneys ...
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Big Government’s Focus on Fines and Fees Disparately Impacts Poor, Minority Communities

Big Government’s Focus on Fines and Fees Disparately Impacts Poor, Minority Communities

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Black Leaders Offer Better Deal From the Criminal Justice System Washington, D.C. – Law enforcement agencies focus too much on revenue-generating activities that have a negative impact on poor and minority communities, further straining the relationship between police and the ...
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Black Leaders Urge Reduced Police Role in Regulatory Enforcement, Increased Autism Training and Gun Legalization to Improve Community-Police Relations

Black Leaders Urge Reduced Police Role in Regulatory Enforcement, Increased Autism Training and Gun Legalization to Improve Community-Police Relations

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Costs to be Covered by Disarming Federal Agencies Washington, DC. – To improve community-police relations, police should get out of the regulation business, be given greater training in identifying and dealing with those with autism and other cognitive disabilities, build ...
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Black Activists Want Government to Investigate Employer-Mandated "Implicit Bias" Workshops

Black Activists Want Government to Investigate Employer-Mandated “Implicit Bias” Workshops

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Starbucks Shutdown Prompts Concern That “Racial Bias Training” Programs Actually Violate Civil Rights Non-Minority and Male Employees Could Be Disadvantaged Washington, DC – With the Starbucks chain of coffeehouses planning to shutter over 8,000 locations on May 29 to train ...
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Cooper Debates Federal Diversity

Cooper Debates Federal Diversity

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When all else fails, play the race card. CNN recently ran a report that cited three anonymous sources (naturally) who claimed Trump Administration Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke downplayed the importance of diversity in federal staffing. As the nation ...
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Fox Host Threatens to Make National Center's Cooper a Regular Guest

Fox Host Threatens to Make National Center’s Cooper a Regular Guest

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“Horace, you make a lot of sense!” That was the wise judgement of Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney about National Center Senior Fellow Horace Cooper. He recently appeared on that channel to discuss the liberal political strategy of going ...
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