Trump doesn't only want to end DEI. He's also voiding a Civil Rights-era anti-discrimination rule.
President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...
Assessing Claims About Trump’s Revocation of an LBJ Executive Order
President Donald Trump signed nearly three dozen executive orders during his first week in office. One order he signed on ...
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‘Civil Rights Canon in American Law’: Trump Rescinds Historic LBJ Nondiscrimination Order
With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government ...
Trump revoked an anti-discrimination hiring rule. Here’s what it means.
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI ...
The Bulwark6d
Trump’s DEI Crackdown Is a Bad Solution to a Real Problem
To some observers, this is a chilling move that strikes at the foundation of civil rights. Yet Trump’s DEI and affirmative ...
Houston Chronicle8d
Donald Trump just undid a key piece of LBJ's legacy
He muscled through the Civil Rights Act over the objections of segregationists in his own party. (Johnson, a longtime Southern senator, would later remark to an aide that by doing so, he had "lost ...
Why President Johnson signed the executive order in 1965 that Trump rescinded
When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil ...
Politifact6d
Did Trump kill ‘Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965’? Here’s why that claim caused confusion
Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...
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Roy S. Johnson: Trump’s pen-tossing Day One signings don’t make us better, let alone great
At least one changed mine. I was eight years old when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law on Thursday, July 2, 1964, rendering segregation in public spaces ...