Various immigrant rights groups filed suit on Oct. 30, on behalf of organizations and communities who will be irreparably harmed by new rules for citizenship applicants. Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), the Seattle City Attorney’s Office, Protect Democracy, and Mayer Brown LLP said the new rules, announced on Oct. 25, will make it much harder […]
EDITORIAL: Harvard admissions
A group that opposes affirmative action said it would appeal an Oct. 1 ruling in which U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs concluded that Harvard’s “holistic” admissions policy does not violate the Constitution by giving Blacks and Hispanics what the university terms a “plus factor” advantage denied to Asian Americans and whites. Students for […]
EDITORIAL: Yang media blackout?
Two NBC News journalists apologized to Andrew Yang on Sept. 6 after the Democratic presidential hopeful called out an on-screen graphic that omitted his name when listing candidates participating in the upcoming Sept. 12 debate. Yang tweeted an image of the faulty graphic, saying NBC “may have miscounted.” NBC News senior producer Michael Hopper initially […]
EDITORIAL: A tournament to remember
Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, Serena Williams, Qiang Wang, Kristie Ahn. Those were just some of the women who took the world stage over the Labor Day weekend in the 2019 U.S. Open—Women’s Singles. They are all women of color. Forbes.com asked if the rising wave of young women of color was influenced by Serena Williams […]
EDITORIAL: Trump wants to limit legal immigration
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s “public charge” rule is officially final. The new measures are scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 15 and could result in legal immigrants in the United States being denied immigration benefits if they are deemed unable to look after themselves financially or are a “public charge” because they […]
EDITORIAL: Stop the hate
A USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll taken on Aug. 5 and 6, in the wake of deadly violence in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, shows that Americans overwhelmingly blame the mental health system, racism and white nationalism, and loose gun laws for the series of mass shootings. Nearly three of four Democrats polled, 74 percent, say […]
EDITORIAL: Democratic Presidential debates, Round 2
Democratic presidential hopefuls will appear on stage in Detroit on two separate nights in the upcoming week. Only 20 candidates qualified for this round of debates—they were selected based on a combination of polling performance and grassroots fundraising. Here are the lineups each night: Tuesday, July 30: Steve Bullock, Pete Buttigieg, John Delaney, John Hickenlooper, […]
EDITORIAL: House denounces Trump for racist tweets
Two days after Donald Trump tweeted that four congressmen of color should “go back” to their home countries, the Democratic-led House passed a resolution—240-187—condemning the president for his “racist comments.” The measure, the first House rebuke of a president in more than 100 years, passed on the night on July 16 nearly along party lines. […]
EDITORIAL: Women’s suffrage: Still a work in progress
2020 marks 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, ensuring the right to vote for most women. Washington was a little ahead of the curve, giving women the right to vote in 1910, a full decade before the passage of the 19th Amendment. Washington was the first state in the […]
EDITORIAL: The Census citizenship question
On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated decision on the census citizenship question case, that—for now—the citizenship question cannot appear on the 2020 Census. Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion affirmed the lower court’s finding that the Department of Commerce’s stated reason for adding the citizenship question was false. During arguments in the case […]
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