Trump Action Archive

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• Supreme Court begins new term with cases threatening voting rights and election access — The Supreme Court's 2025–26 term opens with multiple cases poised to restrict voting access and election administration. Two redistricting cases (Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais) challenge Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by attacking race-conscious redistricting even when it complies with VRA requirements. A case brought by Rep. Mike Bost seeks to prevent counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots postmarked before Election Day. A separate case challenges Mississippi's late-ballot law. National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, with Vice President Vance as a challenger, threatens to eliminate coordination limits between parties and candidates, potentially circumventing individual campaign contribution caps.

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• Pregnancy Justice releases study documenting 412 pregnancy-related criminal prosecutions in 16 states post-Roe — Pregnancy Justice, a reproductive rights organization, released research on Tuesday documenting 412 criminal prosecutions of pregnant women in 16 states during the first two years after Roe v Wade was overturned. The vast majority of cases occurred in the US South, targeted low-income women, and involved charges of child abuse, endangerment, neglect, or homicide. Nearly 400 cases involved allegations of substance use during pregnancy. The organization notes the figure is likely an undercount due to the absence of a national arrest database and believes prosecutors are using child-protection laws to establish "fetal personhood" doctrine.

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• Justice Department Civil Rights Division opens investigation into Des Moines Public Schools employment practices — The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division announced an investigation into Des Moines Public Schools to determine whether its employment practices discriminate based on race, color, and national origin in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The investigation targets DMPS policies requiring teaching staff to match student demographics, specific hiring quotas for teachers of color, staff retention strategies prioritizing voices of people of color, and the "3D Coalition" recruitment program for minority teachers. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon characterized these as unlawful DEI initiatives and race-based hiring preferences.

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• HUD rolls back Fair Housing Act enforcement — Trump appointees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development are rolling back enforcement of the Fair Housing Act, a decades-old civil rights law banning discrimination in housing. Current and former HUD employees told the New York Times that Trump's appointees have made it nearly impossible to do their jobs, blocked lawyers from communicating with clients without approval, and used gag orders and intimidation to block discrimination cases from moving forward.