Sentences with phrase «as a civil rights bill»

«No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was falsely sold as a civil rights bill.

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Abbott signed the bill, known as SB4, on Facebook Live on Sunday evening without notice, sparking condemnation from civil - rights activists.

While Apple has not gone as far as Salesforce in opposing the bill in Indiana, where it operates two stores, the iPhone maker has expressed its concerns earlier this year about whether that bill and others like it would undermine existing civil rights law and damage the business climate of those states.

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

I bet you all the average black do nt know the history of the democratic party and JFK not signing the 1st Civil Rights Bill as a senator.

The lecture he delivered is titled, «The Other America,» and features what most will recognize as a typical King speech through those years after the passing of the Civil Rights Bill and the Voting Rights Bill (three and two years before this appearance, respectively).

New York's Westchester County Board of Legislators has passed a bill portrayed as a civil rights measure that blocks businesses from asking job candidates» salary histories.

De Blasio shouldn't get taxpayer money to pay his legal bills until the city controller certifies he racked them up as part of his job as mayor, according to civil rights attorney Norman Siegel.

It chronicles Johnson's rapid ascent and rule as majority leader in the Senate, his victorious battle to pass a momentous civil rights bill and his election as vice-president to John F Kennedy in 1960.

SERAP also urged the Special Rapporteurs to «prevail on the Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo to decline to sign the bill into law; and on the House of Representatives and the Senate to exercise their legislative powers for good governance, and ensure a safe and enabling environment for civil society organizations both in practice and rhetoric, in line with the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) and the government's international human rights obligations and commitments.»

The drive for the bill has won editorial support from newspapers across the state, and advocates have also enjoyed assists from top law enforcement officials — including James Sheppard, the chief of police in Rochester, and Steven Krokoff, his counterpart in Albany — who aggressively knocked down criticism from opponents of transgender civil rights protections that such laws create public safety problems in locations such as bathrooms and locker rooms.

The bill will also make some non-profits identify large donors, a move the New York Civil Liberties Union worries will discourage people from donating to groups involved in controversial advocacy, such as Planned Parenthood or gun rights groups.

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

Elected officials such as Assemblymen Keith Wright, Council members Robert Jackson, Gale Brewer, Inez Dickens and Senator Bill Perkins said attacking the NAACP over this issue was silly given the civil rights group's history of fighting for equal education.

As were a long - stalled transgender civil rights measure — the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA)-- and a bill that would bar mental health professionals from providing so - called «reparative therapy» (known in the legislation as «sexual orientation change efforts,» or SOCE) on patients who are minorAs were a long - stalled transgender civil rights measure — the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA)-- and a bill that would bar mental health professionals from providing so - called «reparative therapy» (known in the legislation as «sexual orientation change efforts,» or SOCE) on patients who are minoras «sexual orientation change efforts,» or SOCE) on patients who are minors.

As a matter of fact, Karen, sometimes I think that the House and Senate in Washington, in 2013, 2014 and 2015 — 50 years after the March on Washington, the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Federal Voting Act of 1965 — couldn't pass those same bills in their same form today.

His actions in this area brings to mind the political genius of Lyndon Baines Johnson in pushing through Title IV of the Civil Rights Act and, much more recently the pressure put upon Congress by President Barack Obama to get a comprehensive health bill through a Congress as sharply divided as the body confronted by Lincoln.

A long time fighter for women's rights and civil rights, Allred has taken on Trump, Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein in the past year in the courts and in the court of public opinion as allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault have instigated potentially transformative movements in Hollywood.

To that end, he focuses on passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which pits Johnson and his Senate ally Hubert Humphrey (Bradley Whitford) against segregationist Dixiecrats, such as Sen. Richard Russell Jr. (Frank Langella) of Georgia, as well as movement leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. (Anthony Mackie), who were disappointed in the bill's lack of protection for voting rRights Act of 1964, which pits Johnson and his Senate ally Hubert Humphrey (Bradley Whitford) against segregationist Dixiecrats, such as Sen. Richard Russell Jr. (Frank Langella) of Georgia, as well as movement leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. (Anthony Mackie), who were disappointed in the bill's lack of protection for voting rightsrights.

The families, offended by what they regarded as sartorial tyranny, have since given their children a two - year lesson in civil disobedience, the Bill of Rights, the American legal system, and the vagaries of iron - on patches.

As Obama noted in 2014, «During his first twenty years in Congress, he opposed every civil rights bill that came up for a vote, once calling the push for federal legislation a farce and a shame.»

As Senators of the Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee debated federal education policy at an abbreviated hearing Wednesday morning, two coalitions of education and civil rights groups released letters poking holes in the bill while the nation's two largest teachers» unions released notes containing partial endorsements.

Civil rights and community groups across the country have signed on to a letter to Senate leadership urging them to abandon the failed policies of No Child Left Behind as they debate reauthorizing the bill.

«I'm not sure that the civil rights community would, as a whole, have said, «Let's let this bill move forward,»» said Nancy M. Zirkin, executive vice president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Ricivil rights community would, as a whole, have said, «Let's let this bill move forward,»» said Nancy M. Zirkin, executive vice president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rrights community would, as a whole, have said, «Let's let this bill move forward,»» said Nancy M. Zirkin, executive vice president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human RiCivil and Human RightsRights.

In the firm's early days, Bolick was known for his work opposing affirmative action legislation, and acted as one of the top strategists endeavoring to hold up the passage of the 1991 Civil Rights bill.

The Bill of the Century dives into the process of passing not only one of the most important bills of the century, as the title suggests, but one of the most important bills in American history: The Civil Rights Act.

Others receiving a ceremonial plaque included civil rights icon Viola Desmond, soon to be represented on the $ 10 bill, as well as athlete Donovan Bailey, singer Stompin» Tom Connors, Academy Award - winning actress Anna Paquin, environmentalist David Suzuki, and the country itself, to mark Canada 150.

Joining Peter Greenberg is legendary CBS Correspondent Bill Plante, who talks about his remarkable 52 - year career at the network, and his travels along the way — from covering civil rights in Selma, Alabama, the war in Vietnam, his years as the White House correspondent for the network, and many other points in between.

These included the State Policy Network and the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, which worked to defeat climate bills in Congress and are seeking to overturn Environmental Protection Agency rules to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, as well as the Congress for Racial Equality, which was a major civil rights organisation in the 1960s.

The Victims» Bill of Rights contains additional provisions that operate to the financial disadvantage of those convicted of sexual and other offences who are subsequently named as defendants in civil suits.

The Bill would extend this right to someone claiming to be a dependant, even if the deceased did not assume responsibility for their maintenance, and to anyone treated as a child of the family by the deceased even if there was no marriage or civil partnership.

The Cohabitation Rights Bill defines cohabitation as two people (A and B) in a relationship, who are not married or civil partners of each other, or within prohibited degrees of relationship, and who:

If so, would it be a matter of federal jurisdiction, as dealing with (electronic) bills and notes, or provincial, as dealing with property and civil rights within the province — or both?

Senator David Norris» Speech as cited in «Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2009: Second Stage», KildareStreet News