Jan 29, 2018 | Civil Rights
Congressional Bill January 2018 Summary The Trump administration is trying to eliminate the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule started by President Obama. The AFFH is a legal requirement that federal agencies and federal grantees further the purposes...
Jan 29, 2018 | Foreign Policy
January 19, 2018 Summary Last Friday, January 19th, the US Department of Defense published a summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS). The full document, which is classified, was written in conjunction with the National Security Strategy Report of last...
Jan 29, 2018 | Immigration
January 25, 2018 Summary On Thursday, January 25, The Washington Post reported that the White House is proposing a path to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million Dreamers (DACA recipients). In exchange for sparing young undocumented immigrants the hardships of...
Jan 29, 2018 | Economic Policy
January 25, 2018 Summary A 69-hour US government shutdown ended early this week with passage of a short-term spending bill that funds federal operations through February 8. This is the fourth temporary funding measure Congress has passed since it failed to meet an...
Jan 21, 2018 | Civil Rights
Proposed Remedies To Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Agency Regulations January 17, 2018 Note: This brief updates a prior civil rights brief on the net neutrality issue. For more information please see the original April 26, 2017 brief and November and...