Capture lane

Civil Rights Suppression

The Civil Rights Suppression capture lane traces 340 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

340 events From Mar 26, 1790 To May 16, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1142–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-08-18Texas Democrats End 2-Week Standoff, Return for Trump-Ordered Redistricting Vote 3 src
Texas House Democrats · Greg Abbott · Ken Paxton · Donald Trump
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2025-08-05DOJ Publishes Official List of 35 "Sanctuary" Jurisdictions, Escalating Federal-State Confrontation Over Immigration Enforcement 3 src
Department of Justice · Donald Trump
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2025-08-01Supreme Court Expands Louisiana Redistricting Case to Challenge Section 2 of Voting Rights Act 5 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Louisiana · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +3
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2025-07-18Army Issues $1.24B WEXMAC Task Order to Acquisition Logistics for Fort Bliss Soft-Sided Detention Facility 4 src
Acquisition Logistics LLC · U.S. Army
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2025-07-16Trump Calls Own Supporters "Weaklings" and "Selfish People" After Demanding Epstein File Transparency 13 src
Donald Trump · Tucker Carlson · Laura Loomer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +5
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2025-07-01New Jersey Becomes Official Sanctuary State as States Escalate Legislative Resistance to Federal Immigration Enforcement 4 src
California Legislature · Colorado Legislature · ICE · Department of Homeland Security
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2025-07-01Tennessee Enacts Broad Healthcare Refusal Law Allowing Denial of Contraception 3 src confirmed
2025-06-23Supreme Court 6-3 Allows Third-Country Deportations Without Due Process 9 src
U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Sonia Sotomayor
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2025-06-18State Department orders expanded visa screening protocols at all consulates 2 src
Department of State · Trump Administration
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2025-06-07Bovino's Home Depot Immigration Raid Standoff Triggers Trump's National Guard Deployment in LA 4 src
Gregory Bovino · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · California National Guard · +1
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2025-05-29CMS Rescinds EMTALA Guidance Requiring Emergency Abortion Care 3 src
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · 22 State Attorneys General
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2025-05-27Missouri Supreme Court Reinstates Abortion Restrictions Despite Voter-Approved Amendment 3 src
Planned Parenthood
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2025-05-20National Legal Resistance Training and Certification Program 3 src confirmed
2025-05-19DOJ Civil Rights Division Mass Exodus: ~400 Employees Depart as Dhillon Rewrites Mission to Target Trans Rights, Promote 'Anti-Christian Bias' Agenda 6 src
Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2025-05-15FBI Disbands Washington Public Corruption Squad Amid Broader Investigative Reorganization 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kash Patel · Chuck Grassley · +1
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2025-05-14Chief Magistrate Judge Gregory B. Wormuth (D.N.M.) Begins Dismissing Federal Military-Trespass Charges at Probable-Cause Stage; 98-Case Mass Dismissal on May 15 Exposes Knowledge-Standard Flaw in NDA Architecture 7 src
Pam Bondi
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2025-05-09ICE arrests Newark Mayor during congressional oversight visit to detention facility 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · GEO Group
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2025-05-01DOJ Sues Aetna, Humana, Elevance for Paying Illegal Medicare Advantage Kickbacks and Discriminating Against Disabled Beneficiaries 3 src
Department of Justice · CVS Health · Humana
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2025-05-01Texas Sheriff Uses Flock Safety's 83,000 Camera Network to Track Woman Who Had Abortion 4 src
Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Robert Garcia
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2025-04-21Allegheny County Courthouse ICE Arrest Handoff Protocol Activated as ICE Begins Targeting Pittsburgh Courts 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2025-04-21Operation Tidal Wave arrests 1,120 in Florida in largest single-state ICE operation 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Madison Sheahan · Ron DeSantis · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2025-04-11Trump Signs NSPM-4 Transferring Roosevelt Reservation to DoD as First 'National Defense Area' at Southern Border; 170-Mile NM Strip Becomes Military Installation Without Congressional Approval 6 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Army · Department of Homeland Security · +1
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2025-04-03Department of Education Issues "Dear Colleague Letter" Requiring Universities to Certify No DEI Programs or Lose Federal Funding 5 src
Department of Education · Office for Civil Rights · General Services Administration · Donald Trump
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2025-03-31DOJ Drops Voting Rights Cases in Georgia, Virginia, and Alabama, Abandoning Federal Enforcement 6 src
Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · Brad Raffensperger
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2025-03-31Trump Administration Freezes Title X Funding to Planned Parenthood Affiliates 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Planned Parenthood
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2025-03-24FBI launches task force investigating violent attacks on Tesla 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Kash Patel · +1
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2025-03-17First Criminal Charges Filed Under Texas Abortion Ban: Midwife Faces 20 Years 3 src
Ken Paxton
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2025-03-14Trump Signs Proclamation 10903 Invoking 1798 Alien Enemies Act Against Tren de Aragua, First Use Outside Declared War Since World War II
Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Marco Rubio · James Boasberg · +1
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2025-03-13ICE makes 32,809 arrests in first 50 days of Trump administration 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · +1
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2025-03-12EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Eliminates Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights 5 src
Lee Zeldin · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump
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2025-03-0928-year-old political operative appointed ICE Deputy Director despite lacking required experience 3 src
Madison Sheahan · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2025-02-20Study Finds 50% Spike in Pregnancy-Related Sepsis and Deaths in Texas After Abortion Ban 3 src confirmed
2025-02-15Multi-Organizational Civil Rights Litigation Coordination Summit 4 src
Earthjustice · American Civil Liberties Union
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2025-02-14DOJ Public Corruption Division Systematic Dismantling Coordinated Across Agencies 5 src
Emil Bove · Danielle Sassoon · Eric Adams · Dale Ho
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2025-01-31DOE Reverts Title IX to Trump-Era 2020 Rules, Narrowing Sexual Harassment and Gender Identity Protections 4 src
Department of Education · Donald Trump
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2025-01-29Pentagon Ends Travel Reimbursement for Military Members Seeking Abortion Care 3 src
Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · Lloyd Austin · Donald Trump
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2025-01-24DOJ Orders Limits on FACE Act Enforcement, Weakening Abortion Clinic Protection 2 src
Department of Justice · Chad Mizelle · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2025-01-21Trump Signs EO 14173 'Ending Illegal Discrimination' — Foundational Anti-DEI Order Requiring Federal Contractor Certification 6 src
Donald Trump
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2025-01-20Trump Signs Comprehensive Immigration Executive Orders Package: Ends Asylum, Reinstates Remain in Mexico, Kills Parole Programs, Declares Border 'Invasion' 8 src
Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2025-01-20Trump Signs EO 14168: 'Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism,' Mandating Federal Recognition of Only Two Sexes 6 src
Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Education · Department of Health and Human Services · +1
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2025-01-15Louisiana Grand Jury Indicts New York Physician for Providing Medication Abortion 3 srcconfirmed
2024-12-24H-1B Civil War Peaks - Musk vs Bannon/Loomer on Immigration Policy 3 src
Elon Musk · Steve Bannon · Laura Loomer · Vivek Ramaswamy
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2023-06-30Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis 9 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · +8
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2023-06-29Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions Decisions 12 src
U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9
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2022-12-27ICE whistleblower faces retaliation after reporting weapons violations at detention facility 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2022-06-24Dobbs v. Jackson: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade — The 49-Year Institutional Capture Project Succeeds 2 src
Samuel Alito · Leonard Leo · Federalist Society · Neil Gorsuch · +2
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2021-07-18Pegasus Project Exposes Global Surveillance of 50,000 Targets by NSO Group Clients 3 src
Amnesty International · Citizen Lab · The Guardian · Washington Post · +1
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2020-06-10Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests 4 src
Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos
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2020-06-09FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +1
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2020-06-06Boogaloo Movement Kills Two Law Enforcement Officers: Chan Meme Culture Produces Armed Paramilitary Network 3 src confirmed
2020-05-15Puerto Rico Selects LUMA Energy for $1.5 Billion Grid Privatization Following McKinsey's Recommendations, Quanta Services Connection Raises Questions 11 src
McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
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2020-04-18CatalanGate Reveals Systematic Pegasus Targeting of 65 Catalan Independence Leaders 3 src
Citizen Lab · NSO Group
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2019-11-12SPLC Exposes Stephen Miller White Nationalist Emails: 900 Messages Promoting Racist Literature and Hate Sites 3 src
Stephen Miller
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2019-05-01Academic Studies Document PredPol's Racial Bias and Ineffectiveness 3 src
PredPol · LAPD
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2018-11-15Mexican Journalists Targeted with Pegasus Days After Colleague's Assassination 2 src
Citizen Lab · NSO Group
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2018-11-06Florida Voters Approve Amendment 4 Restoring Voting Rights to 1.4 Million with Felony Convictions 4 src confirmed
2018-10-27Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre: Gab-Radicalized Gunman Kills 11 in Deadliest Antisemitic Attack in US History 3 src confirmed
2018-10-22Trump Adopts 'Invasion' Rhetoric Mainstreaming Great Replacement Theory Before Midterms 4 src
Donald Trump · Republican Party
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2018-07-26ACLU test reveals Amazon Rekognition misidentified 28 Congress members as criminals, showing racial bias 4 src
American Civil Liberties Union · Amazon · AWS · John Lewis
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2018-04-22UAE Installs Pegasus Spyware on Khashoggi's Wife's Phone Months Before His Murder 3 src
Jamal Khashoggi · NSO Group · Citizen Lab
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2018-03-10Zeynep Tufekci Exposes YouTube as "The Great Radicalizer": Recommendation Algorithm Systematically Pushes Users Toward Extremism 3 src
YouTube · Google
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2018-01-11Trump Calls Haiti and African Nations 'Shithole Countries' in Bipartisan Immigration Meeting 4 src
Donald Trump · Dick Durbin
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2017-08-01Courts Strike Down North Carolina Racial Gerrymandering, Legislature Redraws With Explicit Partisan Intent 3 src
North Carolina General Assembly · Robert Rucho · Republican Party
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2017-07-28Trump Weaponizes MS-13 Gang to Demonize Central American Immigrants and Justify Mass Deportations 4 src
Donald Trump
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2017-03-06Trump Signs Travel Ban 2.0 (Executive Order 13780) - Revised Muslim Ban After Courts Block Original 2 src
Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani
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2017-01-27Trump Signs Muslim Ban (Executive Order 13769) Causing Airport Chaos and Mass Visa Revocations 3 src
Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · State Department
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2016-11-20Law Enforcement Attacks Standing Rock Protesters With Water Cannons in Subfreezing Temperatures 4 src
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Energy Transfer Partners · Al Franken · Cory Booker
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2016-11-19Richard Spencer's NPI Conference: "Hail Trump, Hail Our People" — The Alt-Right Goes Public 2 src confirmed
2016-10-08Rumors Surface of Apprentice Outtakes Showing Trump Using N-Word, Burnett Refuses Release 3 src
Donald Trump · Mark Burnett
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2016-08-10UAE Targets Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor with NSO Pegasus Spyware 3 src
Citizen Lab · NSO Group · Apple
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2016-06-02Trump Attacks Federal Judge Curiel as "Mexican" Despite Indiana Birth, Paul Ryan Calls It "Textbook Racism" 3 src
Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Paul Ryan
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2015-06-29NBC Fires Trump from The Apprentice Following Racist Comments About Mexican Immigrants 3 src
Donald Trump · NBC
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2015-06-17White Supremacist Dylann Roof Murders Nine Black Worshippers at Historic Charleston Church - Confederate Flag Controversy Exposes South Carolina's Institutional Racism 4 src
South Carolina Legislature
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2015-06-16Trump Descends Escalator with "Rapists" Speech: Breitbart Pivots to Full Campaign Organ 2 src
Donald Trump · Steve Bannon
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2015-06-16Trump Launches Presidential Campaign Calling Mexican Immigrants 'Rapists' and Criminals 4 src
Donald Trump
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2014-10-13GM Plant Stops Using Flint Water After It Corrodes Car Parts—But Residents Must Keep Drinking It 3 src
General Motors · Darnell Earley · Flint City Government
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2014-07-21Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion" 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Human Rights Watch · Department of Justice
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2014-06-25Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Unconstitutional in Riley v. California 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts
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2014-06-21Trump: Central Park Five Still Guilty Despite DNA Exoneration 3 src
Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · +2
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2014-04-25Flint Switches to Corrosive River Water to Save Money, Poisoning Entire City 4 src
Darnell Earley
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2014-01-01Flint Water Crisis (2014-2024) - 12,000 Children Poisoned, Zero Accountability 5 src
Rick Snyder · Darnell Earley
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2013-08-01Chicago Police Launch Strategic Subject List "Heat List" Predictive Policing Program 3 src
Chicago Police Department
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2013-03-11Federal Court Rules Texas 2011 Redistricting Intentionally Discriminated Against Latino Voters 4 src
Texas Legislature · Republican Party
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2013-01-02Obama Signs American Taxpayer Relief Act Making 82% of Bush Tax Cuts Permanent - 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Locks in $2.8 Trillion in Tax Cuts for Wealthy 5 src
Barack Obama · Joe Biden · Mitch McConnell · Nancy Pelosi · +1
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2012-10-01Reddit's "Manosphere" Reaches Critical Mass: r/TheRedPill and r/MensRights Become Gateway to White Nationalist Radicalization 3 src confirmed
2012-06-01New Orleans Police Launch Secret Palantir Predictive Policing Program 3 src
Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel
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2012-04-06Magnitsky Act Passed by US Congress 3 src
John McCain · U.S. Congress
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2012-01-15PredPol Predictive Policing Company Founded 2 src confirmed
2011-09-01LAPD Launches Operation LASER Predictive Policing Program with Palantir 3 src
LAPD · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel
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2011-01-01North Carolina Republicans Begin Aggressive Racial Gerrymandering 4 src
North Carolina General Assembly · Republican Party · Robert Rucho
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2004-11-02Ohio Evangelical Turnout Delivers Bush Reelection: "Values Voters" Become the Decisive Electoral Bloc 2 src
George W. Bush
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2004-02-24Bush Endorses Federal Marriage Amendment: Anti-Gay-Marriage Constitutional Strategy Becomes Republican Turnout Infrastructure
George W. Bush · Focus on the Family · Family Research Council · James Dobson
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2003-06-23Grutter v. Bollinger - Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action but Sets 25-Year Limit 3 src
Sandra Day O'Connor · Clarence Thomas
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2002-08-01DynCorp Bosnia Trafficking Scandal: Contractor Employees Purchase Women and Girls for Sexual Slavery, Face No Criminal Prosecution 2 src
United Nations
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2000-03-01Subprime Lending Explodes as Predatory Practices Spread to Minority Communities 3 src
Citigroup
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2000-01-01Florida Disenfranchises 1.4 Million Citizens Through Felony Voting Bans, Highest Rate in Nation 4 src
Florida Legislature
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1997-10-01287(g) Program Created, Deputizing Local Police for Immigration Enforcement 3 src
U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice
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1996-09-30Clinton Signs IIRIRA Expanding Deportation, Retroactive Aggravated Felonies 3 src
Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service
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1996-04-24Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Expands Deportation, Strips Judicial Review 3 src
Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service
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1996-01-28Hillary Clinton Delivers "Super-Predators" Speech Supporting 1994 Crime Bill 4 src
Hillary Clinton · Bill Clinton
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