{"id":39702,"date":"2025-04-24T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/civil-rights-advocates-say-trump-order-guts-protections-against-discrimination\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:08:25","slug":"civil-rights-advocates-say-trump-order-guts-protections-against-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/civil-rights-advocates-say-trump-order-guts-protections-against-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil rights advocates say Trump order guts protections against discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Order directs federal agencies to \u2018deprioritize enforcement\u2019 of laws where policies have discriminatory effects<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/24\/donald-trump-tariffs-white-house-latest-politics-live-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> executive order on Wednesday eliminating \u201cdisparate-impact liability\u201d from federal civil rights enforcement has sparked condemnation from legal and civil rights advocates who argue it guts protections that have shielded Americans from discrimination for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/04\/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy\/\">order<\/a> directs federal agencies to immediately \u201cdeprioritize enforcement\u201d of laws where policies have discriminatory effects, even without discriminatory intent \u2013 a cornerstone of modern civil rights protection. It also instructs the attorney general to begin repealing or amending regulations implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/24\/civil-rights-trump-order\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order directs federal agencies to \u2018deprioritize enforcement\u2019 of laws where policies have discriminatory effects US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump\u2019s executive order on Wednesday eliminating \u201cdisparate-impact liability\u201d from federal civil rights enforcement has sparked condemnation from legal and civil rights advocates who argue it guts protections that have shielded Americans from discrimination for &#8230; <a title=\"Civil rights advocates say Trump order guts protections against discrimination\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/civil-rights-advocates-say-trump-order-guts-protections-against-discrimination\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Civil rights advocates say Trump order guts protections against discrimination\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}