California's legislature seemingly just can't help itself. Even after quiet-killing yet another effort to amend the state's constitution to reauthorize racial discrimination, last week, Assembly committees sent to the floor bills to racially classify Californians and start awarding benefits to Californians based on those classifications.
Today, along with the Center for Equal Opportunity, we wrote [...]
Today, the ACR Project joined CFER in formally registering with the California's Assembly our opposition to ACA 7. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's SFFA decisions, ACA 7 is legally untenable. Because it puts at risk billions in federal funding, it's fiscally irresponsible. And it asks voters to approve the same discrimination they've twice rejected (by accelerating margins) in 25 years.
Today, the ACR Project filed with the U.S. Treasury Department a Title VI complaint, concerning Vermont's recently announced launch of an intentionally racially discriminatory business coaching and training program.
Today, the ACR Project and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research jointly submitted a comment to the U.S. Department of Education, raising numerous potentially fatal defects in the Department's proposed alteration of the regulation governing the men's and women's athletic programs run by federal funding recipients.
Today, the ACR Project notified San Francisco, the San Francisco USD, the UC System, and California's Health and Human Services Agency of our intent to sue over the unconstitutional guaranteed income programs in which they participate.
The ACR Project demanded that American Airlines Group, Inc. publicly retract its discriminatory policies injecting race into the company’s internal and external contracting in ways that American law has banned for generations.
Today, on behalf of a concerned Levi's shareholder, the ACR Project demanded that the company publicly retract its illegal, discriminatory training policies. Levi's has chosen to make available to its employees training programs defined by the immutable characteristics of participants (excluding all employees from participation unless they are of -- respectively -- the right race, ethnicity, or sex). But an employer discriminating in the training it makes available based on race, national origin, and sex violates longstanding federal and state laws.
Today, on behalf of concerned Pfizer shareholders, the ACR Project demanded that the company publicly retract a set of illegal, discriminatory policies. Those policies inject race, ethnicity, and sex into every level of Pfizer's hiring and promotions, ranging from its summer internships to its top executives and directors. These policies -- admitted on Pfizer's webpage -- violate state and federal laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and a host of state laws, including those of New York (where Pfizer headquarters) and Delaware (where it incorporated).
Reports indicate that San Diego is set to "push" a "challenge" to the California State Constitution's prohibition against racial discrimination in public contracting, despite the actual knowledge of all involved that it would violate at least the state Constitution (and likely violate federal law, as well). We wrote, suggesting they should voluntarily call that off, before the Courts have to do so for them (and assign them, potentially, personal liability for resulting damages).
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