Updates | Week of March 20, 2017
Derek Reinbold // 3/21/17 //
LGBT RIGHTS
The Trump Administration’s “turnabout on gay rights” has hurt Republicans, for reasons described in the New York Times by Alan K. Simpson.
LGBT communities are worried about an absence of hate crime prosecutions under Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
- Terry Carter (ABA Journal) notes that AG Sessions opposed a 2009 hate crime law, suggesting hostility to bringing such cases.
President Trump’s Secretary of Labor nominee may not be a faithful guardian of civil rights, explain Ian Thompson and Gillian Thomas (ACLU).