Justice Department declares 50-year-old discrimination rules unconstitutional, making it harder for workers to sue employers whose hiring practices disproportionately harm minorities.
Defense Secretary Hegseth strikes at least seven Navy officers from a one-star promotion list chosen by senior admirals, leaving no women on the final slate.
Federal appeals court rules Hegseth’s transgender military ban unconstitutional and blocks the discharge of active-duty troops, calling it driven by animus.
Louisiana House votes 66-35 to cut majority-Black congressional districts from two to one, sending the map back to the Senate before a June 1 deadline.
Labor Department urges employees to report colleagues for past DEI work, citing a three-year window that reaches back before Trump took office.
DOJ sues UC over UCLA antisemitism response in third federal action targeting the university this year after February employee suit and January admissions complaint.
OMB orders agencies to report all federal spending on 49 nonprofits doing DEI, LGBTQ+, immigration, civil rights, environmental and humanitarian work, including funding under active litigation.
Labor Department appoints faith services director Wolfe to lead civil rights enforcement for up to 25% of U.S. workforce, an office set for elimination.
Louisiana House committee advances new congressional map eliminating second majority-Black district three weeks after Supreme Court’s Callais ruling, hiding voided ballot counts from disclosure.
House defeats Smithsonian women’s history museum bill 204-216 after Republicans add transgender exclusion and presidential site-relocation power.
Iowa Gov. Reynolds signs laws requiring in-person abortion pill prescriptions, parental consent for HPV vaccines, and shielding providers who deny care for religious or moral reasons.
Colorado Supreme Court orders Children’s Hospital to resume gender-affirming care for 800 minors after hospital cut access citing federal funding threats.
Trump administration raises refugee ceiling from 7,500 to 17,500 to admit more white South Africans while keeping other vulnerable populations excluded.
Tennessee’s lone Democratic congressman Steve Cohen retires after state Republicans split his majority-Black Memphis district three ways, the first such House retirement after Louisiana v. Callais.
EEOC asks White House to scrap all five demographic data reporting requirements including the EEO-1, executing a Project 2025 plan that workplace civil rights enforcement depends on.
Texas AG Paxton forces Texas Children’s Hospital to open nation’s first ‘detransition clinic,’ pay $10 million, and fire five doctors over gender-affirming care.
Federal judge in Rhode Island quashes DOJ subpoena demanding identities and complete medical records of every minor treated for gender dysphoria at Rhode Island Hospital since 2020.
Justice Department finds Yale School of Medicine intentionally discriminated by race in admissions and used “racial proxies” to evade Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban.
HHS launches Moms.gov on Mother’s Day directing pregnant women to anti-abortion centers posing as medical clinics.
ATF proposes rule requiring buyers to mark biological sex on firearms forms, exposing transgender Americans to perjury charges.
DOJ Civil Rights Division alleges UCLA medical school discriminated by race in admissions, claiming pattern of Black and Hispanic applicants admitted with lower academic credentials.
EEOC sues New York Times for passing over white male editor, alleging illegal DEI hiring violated Title VII.
Education Department probes Smith College for admitting trans women, citing Title IX single-sex exception.
DHS environmental waivers allowed border wall construction to destroy 60-foot section of 1,000-year-old Hia-ced O’odham intaglio in Arizona wildlife refuge.
Florida Gov. DeSantis signs law banning local DEI funding and says white men are the “disfavored” group most discriminated against.
FTC forces ad firms Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP to settle, barring brand-safety standards conservatives say hurt Breitbart and Musk’s X.
Trump administration releases $3.4 billion in Second Avenue subway funding minutes before MTA lawsuit hearing, after seven-month DEI standoff.
Virginia Gov. Spanberger signs bill ending state tax exemptions for the United Daughters of the Confederacy and other Confederate memorial organizations.
Federal judge rules 61 fired Fannie Mae workers of Indian descent cannot sue housing director Pulte after he accused them of fraud on television without evidence.
IBM pays $17 million to settle Trump administration’s first Civil Rights Fraud Initiative case while denying it ever engaged in the DEI practices it agreed to end.
Trump administration settles lawsuit and agrees to permanently restore the Pride flag at Stonewall National Monument two months after ordering its removal.
Education Department rescinds Obama and Biden era civil rights settlements requiring seven schools to protect transgender students from discrimination.
Federal judge blocks Trump order requiring colleges in 17 states to hand over seven years of race-based admissions data, calling the process “rushed and chaotic.”
USDA kills 49 of 50 farm grants for underserved producers, costing Montana tribes nearly $15 million for land and training programs the agency labeled DEI.
Federal judge orders University of Pennsylvania to turn over names of employees affiliated with Jewish organizations to the EEOC for its antisemitism investigation.
DOJ sues Minnesota over policies allowing transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports, threatening nearly $3 billion in federal education funding.
Defense Secretary Hegseth removes two Black and two female Army officers from promotion list to one-star general, with at least two more blocked in another branch.
Justice Department opens civil rights investigations into admissions at Stanford, Ohio State and UC San Diego medical schools, threatening federal funding.
USDA cancels a $300 million Biden-era program that helped underserved farmers buy and retain land, calling it discriminatory DEI spending.
Trump installs replica of Baltimore Columbus statue toppled during 2020 racial justice protests on White House grounds, calls Columbus “the original American hero.”
Senate Democrats block Republican amendment to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports for the fourth time as GOP attaches it to voting restrictions bill.
Chicago Transit Authority sues the federal government over withholding $2 billion for the Red Line extension to the Far South Side, warns both projects may stop.
Justice Department sues Harvard to recoup federal grants and cut off future funding, alleging the university failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment.
Trump administration installs a statue of Declaration signer Caesar Rodney, who enslaved 200 people, in downtown D.C. after it was removed from Delaware during the 2020 racial justice protests.
Fourth Circuit becomes first federal appeals court to uphold a state ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery, citing last year’s Supreme Court transgender ruling 70 times.
Texas excludes every Islamic school from its $1 billion voucher program while approving Christian, Catholic and Jewish schools, prompting a religious discrimination lawsuit.
Seventeen states sue the Trump administration over a new survey requiring colleges to report years of student data broken down by race, gender and income.
Trump’s State Department nominee Jeremy Carl withdraws after senators pressed him on past comments promoting “white identity” and even Republicans withheld support.
D.C. Bar files ethics complaint against DOJ Pardons Attorney Ed Martin for threatening Georgetown Law over DEI, then trying to derail his own disciplinary investigation.
