Wade Henderson
Wade Henderson
Wade Hendersonis president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and counsel to the Leadership Conference Education Fund...
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Bennett's statement is outrageous. As a former secretary of education, he should know better, ... His program should be pulled from the air.
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Now that Roberts' nomination has been reported out of committee, we strongly urge senators to vote their conscience and reject his nomination when it reaches the floor. The stakes are too high and the consequences too great to gamble.
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to be extremely troubling. They seem to reflect the work of a deeply committed ideologue.
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This poll is significant because it takes the temperature of those closest to the current immigration debate. The survey results are striking and reinforce the call for responsible immigration reform worthy of a nation built by immigrants.
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Anti-discrimination laws are the foundation to ensuring that people of color are treated equally. We will vigilantly defend any law, regulation, or ordinance that is designed to ensure equal treatment of all borrowers in the mortgage process.
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The president has an important challenge and opportunity. He can choose a nominee who will unite the country in support of fundamental American rights and freedoms, or he can choose a judicial activist who can dramatically change the court's direction. I pray for the former but I expect the latter.
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President Bush has dug in his heels by refusing to release relevant documents from Roberts' time as a top political appointee and dragged his feet on releasing thousands of other records. This is no time to hide the ball. Given that the next chief justice will affect the lives of all Americans, the Bush administration has a clear obligation to the public to provide the Senate with everything it needs to fully review Roberts' record.
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Organizations like those who have set up these protection initiatives are trying to sound the alarm. We want the country prepared to bring these elections systems under heightened scrutiny.
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For the past 40 years, the law on voting rights has worked well to enfranchise the disenfranchised. But the threats to minority voters and efforts to discourage minority voters continue.
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If his view had prevailed, our country's voting rights revolution might never have happened,
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It's certainly an issue that warrants further exploration,
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serve as the steward of the rights, liberties and freedoms of all Americans for generations to come.
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All evidence indicates that Judge Roberts would use his undeniable impressive legal skills to bring us back to a country that most of us wouldn't recognize, where states' rights trump civil rights, where the federal courts or Congress can see discrimination, but are powerless to remedy it.
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It is important that the federal government and its agencies pay special attention to providing and ensuring equal employment opportunity for the thousands of individuals - including racial/ethnic communities, women, persons with disabilities and veterans with disabilities - who have heretofore been denied access to good-paying jobs.