Aiding Transgender Case, Sessions Defies His Image on Civil Rights
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Aiding Transgender Case, Sessions Defies His Image on Civil Rights
people in jobs, education and other facets of life,
but will lean forward in this one case where a transgender individual has been killed,” said Vanita Gupta, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division in the Obama administration.
Sessions had spoken out against same-sex marriage and voted against expanding federal hate crimes laws to protect transgender people,
and civil rights groups were livid when President Trump nominated him to be attorney general.
“This is just one example of the attorney general’s commitment to enforcing the laws enacted by Congress
and to protecting the civil rights of all individuals,” said Devin O’Malley, a spokesman for the Justice Department.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has dispatched an experienced federal hate crimes lawyer to Iowa to help prosecute a man charged with murdering a transgender high school student last year, a highly unusual move
that officials said was personally initiated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“No person should have to fear being violently attacked because of who they are, what they believe, or how they worship,” Mr.
During the Obama administration, the Justice Department pushed the boundaries of civil rights, routinely arguing for a broad reading of the law.
He declared that the Justice Department no longer considered gay or transgender people to be protected from workplace discrimination
and reversed a policy encouraging schools to let transgender students use bathrooms that fit their gender identities.
When civil rights laws say “sex,” Mr.
people in jobs, education and other facets of life,
but will lean forward in this one case where a transgender individual has been killed,” said Vanita Gupta, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division in the Obama administration.
Sessions had spoken out against same-sex marriage and voted against expanding federal hate crimes laws to protect transgender people,
and civil rights groups were livid when President Trump nominated him to be attorney general.
“This is just one example of the attorney general’s commitment to enforcing the laws enacted by Congress
and to protecting the civil rights of all individuals,” said Devin O’Malley, a spokesman for the Justice Department.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has dispatched an experienced federal hate crimes lawyer to Iowa to help prosecute a man charged with murdering a transgender high school student last year, a highly unusual move
that officials said was personally initiated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“No person should have to fear being violently attacked because of who they are, what they believe, or how they worship,” Mr.
During the Obama administration, the Justice Department pushed the boundaries of civil rights, routinely arguing for a broad reading of the law.
He declared that the Justice Department no longer considered gay or transgender people to be protected from workplace discrimination
and reversed a policy encouraging schools to let transgender students use bathrooms that fit their gender identities.
When civil rights laws say “sex,” Mr.