#Trump said Wednesday that he would seek to delay the #Senate confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton his nominee for director of national intelligence [ #DNI], as he renewed pressure on #Congress to pass a #voting restrictions bill — a strict voter identification #law that does not have enough support among #Republicans to advance.

#VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #elections #Constitution #democracy #VoterSuppression #TrumpCoup
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/politics/senate-intelligence-nomination-voter-restrictions.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share&rsrc=cl-share

But #Trump torched that plan in his social media post early Wednesday morning, just hours before Clayton was scheduled to have a confirmation hearing before the #Senate #Intelligence Committee. He said he would delay the proceedings, all but guaranteeing that #BillPulte would take the job at the end of this week as the acting director of national intelligence [ #DNI].

#VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #elections #Constitution #democracy #VoterSuppression #TrumpCoup #Trump

#Trump said Wednesday that he would seek to delay the #Senate confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton his nominee for director of national intelligence [ #DNI], as he renewed pressure on #Congress to pass a #voting restrictions bill — a strict voter identification #law that does not have enough support among #Republicans to advance.

#VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #elections #Constitution #democracy #VoterSuppression #TrumpCoup
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/politics/senate-intelligence-nomination-voter-restrictions.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share&rsrc=cl-share

Aaaand the NYT coverage∶

#Trump Breaks Up #Education Dept, Prompting Worries Over #CivilRights

#SpecialEducation programs & the Civil Rights office will be moved out of the Education Department, the most aggressive move yet by the Trump administration to dismantle the agency.

#law #Trump #idiocracy #education #IndividualizedEducation #LearningDifferences #IEDs #pedagogy #LearningModalities#legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/us/politics/education-department-civil-rights-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

AP coverage∶

Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-civil-rights-special-education-3483478a51ea8001fcc70e8a77d08d9a

#law #Trump #idiocracy #education #SpecialEducation #IndividualizedEducation #LearningDifferences #IEDs #pedagogy #LearningModalities #CivilRights #legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach

The Office of #SpecialEducation & #RehabilitativeServices, which oversees the Individuals With #Disabilities #Education Act, or #IDEA, will move to #RFKJr’s Department of Health and Human Services [ #HHS], these people said. The Office for #CivilRights will move to the #DOJ.…An Education Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

#Trump #idiocracy #law #legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach

#idiocracy

The #US #Education Department plans to move the offices that oversee #SpecialEducation services & #CivilRights out of the agency, part of the #Trump admin’s effort to close the department by moving all its functions to other parts of the government… [& further divide the classes creating a dumb servile class & a wealthy educated elite class].

The announcement was expected later in the day.

#law #legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/06/16/education-dept-plans-move-special-ed-civil-rights-out-agency/

WTAF??

#GiftArticle

#ICE removed detainee #protections after outreach from top #private contractor
In new federal standards released Monday, the agency appeared to make changes that could benefit #GeoGroup’s legal defense.

#law #Trump #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #ForThePeopleByThePeople
https://wapo.st/4giIJjm

This month, #NewJersey sued #GeoGroup for refusing to allow #state #health inspectors full access to its #DelaneyHall facility, in #Newark, where the state says detainees have staged hunger strikes to protest being fed spoiled or rotten food & not being given access to basic #hygiene products. Geo’s lawyers have said in court filings that only #ICE can grant state inspectors access to the facility [wrong, #Congress can too].​

#law #Trump #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #PrivatePrisons

As the #Trump admin has ramped up arrests of #immigrants, it has relied on #GeoGroup to help it significantly expand the nation’s capacity for holding #ICE detainees. Advocates for immigrants & some #state regulators say poor #oversight at many of these facilities has led to the mistreatment of migrants.

#law #Trump #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #PrivatePrisons #ForThePeopleByThePeople

Geo’s input in the new “standards”, which has not been previously reported, highlights the #ICE contractor’s influence over the agency that is both its #regulator &, corporate filings show, its biggest customer.

2 of the #Trump admin’s top #immigration ofcls — border czar #TomHoman & ICE’s acting director, #DavidVenturella — previously worked for #GeoGroup….

#law #Trump #HumanRights #CivilRights #PrivatePrisons #ForThePeopleByThePeople

#ICE standards are the key rules that #govern the conditions of #detention centers, where hundreds of thousands of people are held each year. The policies, which ICE enforces through its contracts with #private companies & local governments, cover a wide range of facility operations, including how body cavity searches must be conducted as well as when detainees should be placed into solitary confinement.

#law #Trump #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #PrivatePrisons

The new national #detention standards, which #ICE posted to its website Monday, include some of #GeoGroup’s requested changes. The document says detainees are not employees & “are not entitled to wages or benefits under applicable #wage #laws or #labor #regulations.”
The revised rules no longer say detainees must be paid at least $1 per day, & no longer include several references to contractors having to comply with #state or local laws.

#law #Trump #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights

#GeoGroup maintains that the work is “voluntary” & that it operates the program at the direction of the #government.

Geo asked that #ICE remove lines saying contractors needed to follow state & local #laws around the treatment of detainees & that ICE amend language to support its #legal position in these cases…. The company also asked that the standards specify that detainees are not employees of the facilities where they work.

#law #Trump #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #PrivatePrisons

When #ICE was revising the federal #standards that govern #immigration #detention centers, one of its top contractors privately asked for changes that could benefit its business, acc/to a person briefed on the discussions.
#GeoGroup, which oversees more than a dozen ICE detention facilities, has faced #lawsuits in 3 states alleging it violates #MinimumWage #laws by paying some #immigrant detainees $1 a day to work.

#law #Trump #HumanRights #CivilRights

WTAF??

#GiftArticle

#ICE removed detainee #protections after outreach from top #private contractor
In new federal standards released Monday, the agency appeared to make changes that could benefit #GeoGroup’s legal defense.

#law #Trump #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #ForThePeopleByThePeople
https://wapo.st/4giIJjm

Today in Labor History 6/12/1963: Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in Mississippi by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. Phil Ochs’s classic satirical folk song "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" refers to Evers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLqKXrlD1TU&list=RDbLqKXrlD1TU&start_radio=1

#workingclass #LaborHistory #medgarevers #civilrights #civildisobedience #mississippi #whitesupremacy #racism #segregation #naacp #kukluxklan #kkk #folkmusic #protest #jazz #bobdylan #ninasimone #medgarevers #BlackMastodon

Today in Labor History 6/12/1963: Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in Mississippi by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” is about Evers’s assassination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM&list=RDLJ25-U3jNWM&start_radio=1

#workingclass #LaborHistory #medgarevers #civilrights #civildisobedience #mississippi #whitesupremacy #racism #segregation #naacp #kukluxklan #kkk #folkmusic #protest #jazz #bobdylan #ninasimone #medgarevers #BlackMastodon

Today in Labor History 6/12/1963: Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in Mississippi by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. Bob Dylan's "Only a Pawn in Their Game" is about Evers’s assassination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSmkeb_7uq0&list=RDNSmkeb_7uq0&start_radio=1

#workingclass #LaborHistory #medgarevers #civilrights #civildisobedience #mississippi #whitesupremacy #racism #segregation #naacp #kukluxklan #kkk #folkmusic #protest #jazz #bobdylan #ninasimone #medgarevers #BlackMastodon