American Civil Rights Project
The American Civil Rights Project knows that Americans’ civil rights are individual rights, equally held by all (regardless of whether those rights are understood as a positive enactment of centuries of ratifiers or as the common endowment of all children from nature and nature’s God). The ACR Project exists to protect and, where necessary, restore the primacy of all Americans’ shared civil rights. And we need your help!
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The American Civil Rights Project, a public-interest law firm, seeks to assure that American law equally protects all Americans. The ACR Project needs your help to pay for its efforts seeking to accomplish that goal. The ACR Project is a tax-exempt public charity, under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, so all contributions to the ACR Project may be tax deductible under Section 170 of the Code.
Our Latest News
Disparate-Impact Liability: Unfounded, Unconstitutional, & Not Long For This World
No Congress ever passed, no President ever signed, and as a result Title VII never contained (and does not contain now) any language outlawing employment policies bearing disparate impacts across demographic groups or imposing disparate-impact liability on employers for using such policies. Our entire 54-year foray since Griggs has been an unwarranted mistake, which has harmed American employment law and infected other areas with concepts incompatible with core constitutional commitments.
Dan Morenoff Testifies Before House Higher Education & Workforce Development Subcommittee on Patterns of Illegal Discrimination Across Higher Education (and What Congress Can Do About Them)
On May 21, 2025, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Higher Education & Workforce Development heard testimony from our ED Dan Morenoff at its second hearing on Restoring Excellence: the Case Against DEI. You can read his full written testimony here.
ACR Project Files Title VI Complaint Against Weber State University
Despite clear state and federal law, Weber State remains "not shy about continuing to pursue the goal" of obtaining a particular racial balance. They should be. To help get them there, the ACR Project filed a Title VI complaint with DOJ and the U.S. Department of Education.