But soon after President Donald Trump took office, the department reversed positions, arguing that SB 5 fixed the discriminatory issues.
He noted that SB 5 did not significantly expand the list of acceptable photo IDs and didn't address the discriminatory issues with voter education that the courts had found with the original law.
She believes the best antidote for bias is action, and while many of these discriminatory issues are systemic, we can chip away at such problems with the quality of our art.
NCTE will work tirelessly to make sure that members of Congress stay focused on the important and core issue of job discrimination and do not get sidetracked with extraneous and discriminatory issues like restroom use.
With the help, however, of various United Nations Conferences and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and most recently the Post Beijing Conference, discriminatory issues that were once ignored are being brought to the forefront.
At Demos, we will continue to litigate to stop unlawful purges, including on the basis that they are discriminatory — an issue not resolved by the Husted decision.
In March, a federal district judge ruled that the policy was discriminatory and issued an injunction which allowed the Scout groups to continue to meet.
The move on Monday in Texas came before a federal judge in Corpus Christi was scheduled to hear arguments on the discriminatory-intent issue on Tuesday.
He said the justices might be preparing to review whether the death penalty is being applied in a discriminatory way, an issue the court has not taken up for two decades.
Despite the Justice Department's turnabout, District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos recently declared that the Texas law "was passed, at least in part, with a discriminatory purpose". The issue of intent is important in determining whether Texas will be required to get Justice Department approval before revising its election laws.
