American Civil Rights Project
The American Civil Rights Project knows that Americans’ civil rights are individual rights, equally held by all (regardless of whether those rights are understood as a positive enactment of centuries of ratifiers or as the common endowment of all children from nature and nature’s God). The ACR Project exists to protect and, where necessary, restore the primacy of all Americans’ shared civil rights. And we need your help!
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The American Civil Rights Project, a public-interest law firm, seeks to assure that American law equally protects all Americans. The ACR Project needs your help to pay for its efforts seeking to accomplish that goal. The ACR Project is a tax-exempt public charity, under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, so all contributions to the ACR Project may be tax deductible under Section 170 of the Code.
Our Latest News
New Model Legislation: Enforcing the Law on Colorblind Admissions–Congress can stop unconstitutional discrimination and fund better alternatives
Last year, the Court clarified that the racial balancing of our colleges and universities is unconstitutional and illegal. More recently, it declined to take further action to prevent it. Meanwhile, the federal government actively conditions hundreds of thousands of dollars of funding on schools certifying their racial balances. Americans don’t need to wait on the Court to stop funding universities’ racial balancing of their student bodies. Congress can take action right now. Here's how.
Louisiana v. EPA: Major Ruling on Limits of Administration’s Power to Impose Disparate Impact Requirements on Federal Funding Recipients
A U.S. District Court's injunction against the EPA and DOJ will have wide-ranging ramifications for American law. These ramifications will stretch far beyond the environmental policy issue directly in play. [...]
The ACR Project and Center for Equal Opportunity Raise Seeming Illegality of ABA Business Law Section Diversity Clerkship Program
Today, along with the Center for Equal Opportunity, we wrote to the ABA Business Law Section, raising issues with the legality of a section program that appears to discriminate based [...]