Like Klein, Caldwell (a Times contributing Opinion writer) considers the civil rights era a watershed, but in his narrative the crucial polarization isn’t racial but constitutional: In order to rectify racial injustice, ’60s reformers created, through the Civil Rights Act, a..…

In the 1870s and 1880s, Supreme Court invalidated or curtailed laws that enforced Fourteenth Amendment, including Civil Rights Act of prohibition on in public accommodations. By enshrining the right to vote free of discrimination into Constitution, Reconstruction..…

By removing protections against discrimination for transgender people, The chairman of House Judiciary Committee said Wednesday night that he will not advance bill proposed by Republican lawmakers to amend Iowa Civil Rights Act, calling it dead.  . ..…

Today on Stateside, Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include protections for Michigan's LGBTQ citizens. ... In May, the civil rights commission decided to include LGBTQ individuals as members of protected class under Michigan's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights..…