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Look at your state’s Rules of Civil Procedure (or criminal procedure) sections 59–62. Each Rule describes the conditions under which you can request the judge to look at your case again.But be careful - agreement between attorneys makes all data in the case irrelevant. Read your state’s Rules of Civil Procedure 15.4.Also, your attorney has no duty to represent yours or any other interests. Read the Introduction to the Rules of Professional Conduct, softbound.Be aware that there is a Rule 59 Court Scam going on - you’ll get a huge hearing but will be forced to pay for everything yourself by being declared “excessively vexatious” and in contempt of court….If you’ve come to the conclusion that all options for review in the lower courts are closed to you, you can file an Appeal. Be aware, the appeal justices have already been paid at the time your judge was paid. They’ll take any extra money you are willing to put in to your case, but don’t expect any new results.Below is an appeal I tried to submit. I named the judge as the appellee because she abused her discretion and that’s what the law says I should do. The judge issued an illegal arrest warrant against me out of jurisdiction and kept me in jail until my deadlines were over.But I filed this with my case and when I filed a Motion for Mistrial Investigation she was forced to retire….“I have amended this Response to include my concern that Virginia Fraser Able may have misrepresented herself to the judge as my attorney in unbundled services. As a GAL she can't participate in court in any capacity except through direct orders from a DORA regulated psychiatrist. No such orders are available.I'm concerned that Virginia Fraser Able has billed the State and also fraudulently got money from Mr. Stein, who may have erroneously believed that he was paying for an unbundled attorney for me. I believe that Virginia Fraser Able should lose her license for such double billing. The record of the case, as I will show, proves conclusively that I have never had attorney-client relationship with Virginia Fraser Able at any point, and no trust.At Permanent Orders I wasn't present at the beginning and worry that she might have introduced herself as an unbundled attorney. However, I'm recorded stating that I'm not aware of being a part of any agreements or of being represented by Virginia Fraser Able.In the case of Stein Vs. Stein I make three arguments, demonstrating that all dealings in division 4 constitute misconduct and sale of justice and are final and reversible at the Colorado Court of Appeals level:1) Court rulings from 1/11/15[1]; 6/9/15[2]; 6/12/15[3] are automatically reversible due to partial recordings along with the 1/29/15[4] Citation to Show Cause[5]2) The repeated appointments of a GAL from 5/6/14[6]; 6/17/14[7]; 9/23/14[8], and on any other occasions, are all automatically reversible at the Colorado Court of Appeals level regardless of any mistakes in the law[9].3) People Vs. Harlan Leigh Stein warrants a mistrial, retrial and criminal protection due to unrecorded hearings and plea deal. I request an extension of the statute of limitation on compensation for pain and suffering and future medical expenses.I conclude that in case Stein Vs. Stein all rulings by Judge Arkin are reversible, with Temporary Order[10] the only sustainable ruling. Judge White no longer presides and it is the duty of the Honorable Court to reopen People Vs. Harlan Leigh Stein for a retrial due manifest misconduct. Rulings by Judge Slade are likely automatically reversible due to lack of recording or on the merit or transcripts from a fully recorded administrative hearing. Partial recordings indicate misconduct. Partial transcripts, whether comissioned by a judge or any other individual may not be submitted and consideration of such partially recorded transcripts constitute misconduct and are objectionable due to the prohibition on sale of justice. I objected to the commissioning of any transcripts by the judge, and even in the case that such transcripts are part of the record of the case they must be ignored and treated as evidence of misconduct.Objections in any and all rulings with partially recorded or unrecorded hearings by the Trial Court judges are objectionable as over-litigation due to manifest misconduct. Participation by Mr. Stein is objectionable as over-litigation as misconduct is the topic of this appeal. The GAL is entirely excluded from proceedings as her appointment is automatically reversible and as the sale of justice is prohibited. Reversal should be automatic. I remind the Honorable Court of the cause of upholding justice.1) RULINGS CONCERING MARITAL CHATTELSOn 1/11/15[11] the Trial Court ruled that Mr. Stein may enter the marital home and assume any and all chattels through removal[12]. The order stated that he must have access to his personal affects only, and so it was[13]. I removed my personal affects from the home along with some furniture bought during the marriage but didn't conceal any of the chattels removed. I left the marital home during visitation for fear for my wellbeing[14]. An administrative contempt of court hearing was scheduled and heard continually on three dates 3/30/15[15]; 5/22/15[16] & 6/9/15[17]. The Trial Court "found" me guilty in a partially recorded hearing in a ruling that is automatically reversible[18]. The court repeated its ruling on 6/12/15[19], except that this time I was allowed to keep jewelry and some of my clothes. Mr. Stein was to assume all chattels, including my driver's license and Health Spending Account debit card[20]. The Trial Court in division 4 intended to have Mr. Stein stay in the marital home along with all chattels[21]. I would have no access to the home or chattels at any time before Permanent Orders due to fear or my life and incarceration[22]. Discussion of Mr. Stein's move into the marital home should be denied as sale of justice[23].GROUNDS FOR AUTOMATIC REVERSAL:·Partially recorded hearing, automatic reversal·Prohibition on sale of justice·Acceptance of "stipulations" by a GAL constitute sale of justice·The ruling is contradictory to, and overrules, Temporary Orders from division 7·Incarceration is an unusual and cruel punishment due to my injuries·Contempt of Court incarceration from division 5 misconduct·Prevention of the procedural constitutional right to be heard.·Standard of burden of proof standard not appliedThe 6/9/15[24] ruling of guilt complete with remedial and punitive in contempt of court is automatically reversible due to a partial recording. The ruling is final due to implementation of remedial measures. The administrative hearings on three dates, 3/30/15[25]; 5/22/15[26] and 6/9/15[27] constitute one continuous hearing. The ruling part misrepresented admissible testimonies from 5/22/15[28] and was arbitrary. The Designation of Record excludes all recordings and transcripts from partially recorded or unrecorded hearings. An automatic reversal is in due[29].The administrative hearing in division 5 held continually on four dates 3/17/15; 3/22/15; 3/30/15 & 4/16/15 is likely automatically reversible due to a partial recording. All transcripts and recordings are excluded. It is also reversible on its on merit at the Colorado Court of Appeals level in the unlikely event that a full recording becomes available[30].The Trial Court ruling from Stein Vs. Stein on 1/11/15[31] granting the first visit and removal of all chattels[32] and the 6/12/15[33] Trial Court ruling granting the second removal, are both reversible on the grounds that sale of justice contradicts the constitution. The Trial Court in division 4 prevented me from responding. Accepting Mr. Stein's counsel as a measure of justice contradicts the constitutional provision against sale of justice; it also contradicts the constitutional provision of the procedural right of a pro-se party to access the judicial branch[34]. A sale of justice exists in that my pleadings and objections aren't heard by the court with the result that my basic legal entitlements are waved by the Trial Court[35]. It is the jurisdiction of this Colorado Court of Appeals to review these independent Trial Court rulings[36].Granting of a stipulation by a GAL in the Trial Court is also automatically reversible at the Colorado Court of Appeals level due to prohibition on sale of justice while standards for Special Statutory Proceedings are in place[37]. What masquerades on record as orders granting stipulations are, in fact, independent[38] Trial Court rulings due to the provision for Special Statutory Proceedings. The GAL is prevented from exercising a C.R.C.P 15(4) agreement on my behalf as she isn't an attorney of record and does not represent my wishes. There no admissible psychological evaluations were commissioned or filed to justify the involvement of the GAL or prevention of my procedural constitutional right to be heard and uphold my own legal interests in court[39].Due to the provisions of Special Statutory Proceedings the judge isn't at liberty to accept such stipulations[40] short of a sale of justice[41]. She must use her own discretion[42]. Any objection by the Trial Court judge that I failed to object to Mr. Stein's counsel's motions is to be dismissed due to the sinister use of a GAL and the prevention of my procedural constitutional right to be heard, respond to Mr. Stein's pleadings[43] and have my pleadings reviewed.[44] It was the Trial Court judge's own duty to ask me questions and make sure I'm heard. No admissible legal grounds for prevention exist. This appeal excludes solicitation of new psychiatric opinions in arrears.[45]The 6/12/15[46] court ruling is additionally contradictory to the only procedurally sustainable ruling in the Stein Vs. Stein case and originates in division 7, Temporary Orders.[47] Temporary Orders grant me the use of the Honda Fit and the Flexible Health Spending Account debit card. The 6/12/15 order deprives me of both my driver's license and debit card. The order constitutes misconduct and sale of justice on these grounds as well.On all three grounds the three rulings from 1/11/15[48]; 6/9/15;[49] and 6/12/15[50] are final and appealable and reversible[51] procedurally at the Colorado Court of Appeals level.The attorneys were presented with a copy of the Motion to Stay on 6/22/15 and informed of the Appeals Court's Order to Show Cause, automatically staying the District Court case[52]. The 6/12/15[53] court ruling was properly appealed on 6/18/15[54]. Reversal of the 6/12/15 Trial Court ruling at the Colorado Court of Appeals level is essential to uphold the cause of justice. It is also my constitutional procedural right.2) REVERSAL CONCERNING APPOINTMENT AND INVOLVEMENT OF A GALGROUNDS FOR REVERSAL:·Partially recorded hearing, automatic reversal·No real sense in which I ever requested a GAL or changed my mind on this matter, consistent objection·Stipulations between attorneys constitute sale of justice due to lack of trust and lack of client-attorney relationship·Agreements between attorneys expire at Appeal 14CA904 due to lack of trust·Admission of a stipulation between a GAL and opposing counsel constitutes misconductOn 3/3/14[55] a former counsel, Bonnie Shields, filed a Motion for GAL. However, on 2/28/14[56] the counsel was ordered by me to terminate services[57], indicating lack of trust and lack of attorney-client relationship at the time the Motion for GAL was filed. The counsel was dismissed on 3/10/14[58] while I strongly opposed the appointment of a GAL.The counsel was replaced by Mr. Wolf[59]. Mr. Wolf didn't conduct consultations and misrepresented his dealings to division 7. He lost my trust shortly following appointment[60]. On 3/24/14[61] Mr. Wolf agreed to my request that he withdraw. The Trial Court was well aware that no trust and no attorney-client relationship existed between me and Mr. Wolf at the time[62]. Any arguments by District Court in division 4 to the effect that mutual agreement that Mr. Wolf withdraws constitutes trust are unsound. I urgently presented my request that Mr. Wolf be dismissed to division 7, preceding his own Motion to Withdraw[63]. It was the court's duty to terminate his services promptly as his lack of objection to the Trial Court judge's desire to appointment a GAL contradicted the provisions of Special Statutory Proceedings and his duty as an attorney[64]. No admissible opinions regarding imminent harm should a GAL not be appointed were presented to the court[65]. Keeping Mr. Wolf on my record constitutes sale of justice through misconduct.Mr. Wolf represented to the Trial Court that he himself didn't object to court's desire to appoint a GAL to me, but openly admitted that wasn't representing my own wishes and that I have never myself requested the appointment of a GAL[66]. As a lay person his lack of trust in me doesn't constitute legal grounds for the appointment of a GAL. Acceptance of his position by the Trial Court constitutes misconduct[67]. Mr. Wolf was dismissed upon appeal 14CA904.[68] Mr. Wolf's positions and stipulations are reversible in this case[69].There is no real sense in which it can be claimed that I have ever, myself, requested the appointment of a GAL or agreed to it, or that I changed my mind in this matter. In fact, the record shows a consistent objection to the appointment of a GAL[70]. There was explicit lack of trust and lack of attorney-client relationship, explicit and well known to the Trial Court judges, each time an attorney of record requested the appointment of a GAL[71] or neglected to object to it, constituting sale of justice.FIRST APPOINTMENTThe first appointment occurred on 5/6/14[72], in a partially recorded telephone conference, in division 4. A stipulation by the two attorneys was granted knowing that attorney-client relationship doesn't exist[73]. This was done as a sale of justice; with no admissible medical opinion as to the necessity of a GAL or of any imminent danger; and in contradiction to the protected status of Special Statutory Proceedings. The ruling is automatically reversible on both grounds: a partial recording and a stipulation. On 5/16/14[74] the guardian ad litem was granted general powers in complete contradiction to the record of this case[75]. The appointment was reversed upon appeal 14CA904[76].SECOND APPOINTMENTOn 6/17/14[77] the Trial Court judge in division 4 appointed a new GAL according to Mr. Stein's former request, available only in unrecorded telephone conference. She prevented me from being heard under the guise of shortage of time, but assured me that a hearing will be held. The hearing from 9/23/14[78] was partially recorded and is automatically reversible at the Appeals Court level for three reasons: partial recording; no record of me ever asking for a GAL; and a complete lack of admissible medical evaluations, either commissioned or submitted with the record of this case[79]. Any errors in the law are irrelevant and do not prevent appeals at the Colorado Court of Appeals.The two appointments from both hearings, from 5/6/14[80] and 9/23/14[81] are automatically reversible and constitute misconduct. All court rulings following those constitute sale of justice and are automatically reversible at the Colorado Court of Appeals level. These rulings are at the discretion of the judge alone, no stipulations by a GAL are admissible as I am unrepresented and C.R.C.P 15(4) contradicts the provisions from Special Statutory Proceedings.All court rulings based on stipulations by a GAL are therefore reversible on this ground too, including court orders from 1/11/5[82] & 6/12/15[83]. I will now address the ruling from 3/19/15.The ruling from 3/19/15[84] is the automatically reversible granting of a stipulation by the GAL allowing her to act as an attorney of record against my will. My pleadings were never reviewed and I was prevented from participation in Pretrial and Permanent Orders hearing through gross misconduct[85].The Designation of Record excludes any and all transcripts and recordings from partially recorded hearings, including, and especially those solicited by judges, whether filed with the case or not. Any psychological evaluation ordered by District Court in arrears is objectionable on the grounds constitutes over-litigation and due to automatic reversals.3) PEOPLE VS. HARLAN LEIGH STEIN, MISTRIAL DUE TO MISCONDUCTLack of trust with attorneys of record dismisses any denial of the domestic assault of 10/11/13. The police report is complete with a confession by Mr. Stein himself and my injuries are consistent with the police's account of the assault[86]. The plea deal is manifestly inadmissible[87].Faulty recording in division 5 warrants an automatic mistrial. The hearing from 10/16/15[88] is unrecorded.An automatic mistrial, retrial and an automatic criminal protection order are in order. The Appeals Court is also in a position to extend the statue of limitation for claims of compensation pain and suffering and future medical expenses.I was physically prevented from being heard at the sealing of the case on 11/6/14. Surely a "behavior" would warrant a contempt of court order, not a pre-emptive prevention of the victim being heard. My interest in being heard is recorded and I have attached email communications to further corroborate my claims. (Exhibit 2)Public interest in mistreatment of victims of domestic violence has always been high, and peaked with the domestic assault by NFL player Ray Rice. The press suspected faulty statutes but have since diverted their attention to misconduct at the independent, self-regulating judicial branch.The domestic assault of 10/11/13 left me with fractures, bulging, slipped and ruptured disk, chips to left shoulder blade and thoracic spine and a concussion as well as fractures to my teeth. I must still attend exhausting physical therapy sessions, nearly two years later. I must see a physical therapist for a reformer Pilates session at least twice a week. I require an osteopathic adjustment at least once a week as if I lift anything at all I experience pain, lack of flexibility to my feet and knee problems. All of these injuries match in schedules and description the police report from 10/11/13.CONCLUSIONAutomatic reversal is appropriate for all rulings in all three cases[89] from the Douglas County Combined Courts[90]. In Stein Vs. Stein only the Temporary Orders[91] ruling is sustainable and should be upheld. Any argumentation by judges lack legal grounds as automatic reversals are in order[92].Over-litigation on my part is an impossibility, as I've been denied procedural constitutional right to access justice since 3/24/14[93] through misconduct.Mr. Stein is excluded as a party of interest due to the participation of the GAL through misconduct. The GAL is excluded from these proceedings as her appointment warrants automatic reversal[94].It is my right to be made aware of, and to respond to, any objections to automatic reversal in the unlikely event that any arise. All such arguments by district court are necessarily and manifestly groundless and meant to extend litigation[95].Please stay the District Court case continually and maintain jurisdiction under all circumstances.Date: 7/2/15 ___________________________________ Appellant Sigalit Stein3460 Colorado Ave. B3Boulder, CO 80303303-570-7993CERTIFICATE OF SERVICEI certify that on 7/2/15 a true and accurate copy of the response to order to show cause was served on the District Court by hand to Douglas County District Court, 4000 Justice way, Castle Rock, CO 80109__________________________________________[1] Event ID: 195[2] Event ID: 259[3] Copy of Signed Order submitted on 7/2/15[4] Event ID: 204 & 205[5] Mr. Stein and his attorneys as well as the court appointed guardian ad litem are no a party to this appeal and may not participate.. They were duly informed regarding an automatic stay in the District Court case and were presented with a copy of the Motion to Accelerate and Motion to Stay on 6/22/15. A copy was mailed to them via USPS on 6/21/15. An affidavit is filed with this Appeals case.[6] Event ID: 81[7] Event ID: 114[8] Event ID: 170[9] Such automatic reversal allows me to represent myself pro-se in this Colorado Court of Appeals case. Mr. Stein is not a party as sale of justice is the matter of the Douglas County Combined Courts.[10] Event ID: 27, Magistrate Moss in division 7[11] Event ID: 195[12] I discuss the status of GAL stipulations in section 2. The GAL omitted the phrase "in situ" after the order that my husband secure his personal affects. The suggested order stated that the judge "observed behaviors" and therefore my safety and legal concerns, well known to the attorneys, won't be heard. The Trial Court judge as access to all of Mr. Stein's records of domestic assaults and knows that he repeatedly seals them only to assault again.[13] A signed orders was submitted on 7/2/15[14] Both in terms of safety and to avoid admission of groundless false allegations by the Trial Court. The Trial Court neglected a no-contact order and prevented me from being heard. Besides manifest misconduct, the Trial Court signed an order on Sunday for a "stipulation" that was filed on a Thursday, making it impossible to respond. Due to injuries from the domestic assault of 10/11/13 I still suffer a bulging, slipped and ruptured disk. I'm unable to run or push. Should Mr. Stein injure my disk in the course of a hug due to his malicious nature, I would spend lifetime in diapers and require surgery. As a matter of sale of justice the Trial Court consistently neglected any standards of burden of proof and engaged in arbitrary rulings by enforcing groundless false allegations by Mr. Stein's counsel and the GAL.[15] Event ID: 244[16] Event ID: 256[17] Event ID: 259[18] Mr. Stein is the more affluent spouse and the court should have erred on the side of allowing me to keep my personal chattels. The court tried various approaches and when nothing worked, simply contradicted the admissible evidence and legal requirements at ruling.[19] Signed Order submitted on 7/2/15. Due to fear for my life I didn't travel to District Court. The case is confidential and clerks were not in a position to disclose the Event ID. This is the only one missing prior to the case being automatically stayed on 6/19/15.[20] This contradicts the ruling of another judge, as I discuss later.[21] Event ID: 259 - "ATP brings up modification of temp orders. court cannot address issue since perm order are so close." RecurringSaleof justice in Trial Court division 4 means that Mr. Stein would either divert all chattels to a different location or get exclusive residence in the marital home due to his violent and dangerous nature. Incarceration was meant to prevent me from being prepared or present exhibits at Permanent Order. Mr. Stein's counsel disclosed this intention of the court, claiming that Mr. Stein would have to guard the property while I'm incarcerated.[22] Case 13M1767 warrants a reversal of sealing at the Colorado Courts of Appeals level. The Trial Court in division 4 prevented me from being heard in all of its rulings outside of partially recorded hearings. My safety concerns were not heard. Mr. Stein sealed more than one domestic assault record and sealing the 10/11/13 case means that he is in a position to assault again. My injuries make it impossible for me to tolerate even a small push. Herniation of disk L1-S5 would means lifelong dependency on diapers an a surgery.[23] All court rulings arbitrary and constitute misconduct as they depend on Mr. Stein's and the GAL's groundless allegations, preventing me from being heard and short of the standard of burden of proof.[24] Event ID: 259[25] Event ID: 244[26] Event ID: 256[27] Event ID: 259[28] Event ID: 256[29] No new evidence or arguments are admissible in this case. It is highly unlikely that all parts of this hearing were recorded. If they are, reversal is due at the Colorado Court of Appeals level based on procedural injunctions and rules of evidence. The case is still final and appealable as following the 6/12/15 ruling I pleaded for a reheating in a Rule 59 Review and was denied by the Trial Court. Considering consistent misconduct in division4 arehearing there would only lengthen litigation and lead to another appeal. For the sake of expedience this appeal should be reviewed.[30] I didn't know about the order as my mail often gets forwarded to Mr. Stein's new mailbox near the DTC Sheraton. Mr. Stein was in a position to remove the police report himself, as he did. The Trial Court judge engaged in misconduct.[31] Event ID: 195[32] Signed on a Sunday following a Thursday filing, depriving me from the right to object through sale of justice.[33] Signed Order submitted on 7/2/15[34] All appointments of a guardian ad litem constitute a sale of justice as well and are automatically reversible based on partially recorded hearings.[35] All accusations of misrepresentation should be held to the standard of proof - as I have represented myself pro-se well in this case up to Temporary Orders. As soon as division 4 took over I was prevented from accessing the judicial branch by misconduct. Long pleadings are a result of misconduct in division 4.[36] The contempt of court guilty ruling from division5 incase 14CV31041 following an administrative hearing on four dates - 3/17/15; 3/22/15; 3/30/15 & 4/16/15 - is also automatically reversible based on a partially recorded hearing, as the Designation of Record will show. It is also reversible based on the criteria for bail and filings in this case. I didn't know about the court order as my mail is often forwarded out to Mr. Stein's new address; Mr. Stein was in a position to remove the online posting of the police report himself, as he did, see filing from 4/15/15. I failed to show up because the attorneys wrote an email stating that they are canceling an irrelevant Trail date on 3/18/15 and I confused it with the 3/17/15 date for contempt of court.[37] Appointment of a GAL against the will of the party and short of an admissible psychiatric evaluation is an arbitrary use of absolute power. This is appealable at the Colorado Court of Appeals level. The GAL did not uphold my legal interests in court, and the Trial Court judge engaged in sale of justice. These are all grounds for automatic reversal.[38] Therefore Mr. Stein isn't a party in this appeal. Him and his counsel were made aware of the Notice of the Motion to Stay and the Order to Show Cause from 6/19/15 on 6/22/15.[39] Whimsical appointment of a GAL is automatically reversible as it constitutes an arbitrary use of absolute power. Any claims regarding expediency are automatically objectionable, as a properly conducted dissolution of marriage would have concluded on June of 2014 and no later than September. The appointment of a GAL constitutes, in and of itself, excessive litigation. Even on the subject of chattels, the parties could have easily agreed on a division, with the provision that the courts view the less affluent party with favor, and no lengthy contempt of court were needed.[40] The Trial Court judge in division 4 was obligated to hear me and not issue rulings. The statement, borrowed from a proposed order that was part of the stipulation, that she observed "behaviors" constitutes sale of justice and isn't a legally bonafide reason to prevent a party from being heard short of an admissible medical opinion that wasn't solicited or filed in this case.[41] I have a right to be informed of any arguments by District Court and to respond, as it is evidently clear that a sale of justice occurred.[42] If a Trial Court judge, at her own discretion, decides to deprive me of my basic legal entitlements, to my own personal affects, to freedom and to an equitable part in my marital estate this is appealable at the Colorado Court of Appeals level. These are grounds for a recusal and I request the judge to expedite proceedings by voluntarily recusing her position after muting all parts of my appeal - vacating the GAL and reversing all of her rulings.[43] I discuss the Motion to Expand the Authority of the GAL from 3/19/15 later.[44] The 1/11/15 ruling was signed on a Sunday following a Thursday filing of the stipulation, preventing me from being heard without any legal grounds. See also Event ID235, aTrial Court ruling from 3/19/15 discussed in section 2, expanding the authority of the GAL, again preventing me from being heard and constituting a sale of justice.[45] No admissible psychiatric test exists for paranoid schizophrenia within six months of extremely stressful conditions, such as a judge engaged in misconduct. Six months of safety required and an additional 8 weeks for the results to come back. The provisions of Special Statutory Proceedings contradict the appointment of a GAL short of a conclusive opinion. I have never personally requested the appointment of a GAL and the burden of proof is on Mr. Stein. Additionally, the choice of an evaluator must exclude bias and a judge engaged in misconduct should not be in a position to solicit one. This is all appealable at the Colorado Court of Appeals.[46] Signed court order was submitted on 7/2/15.[47] Event ID: 29 from 1/27/14 granting me the use of the Honda Fit, the use of the Flexible Health Savings debit card as well as the use of the marital home following a fully recorded hearing with transcript submitted to the court on 7/17/14 Event ID: 136-139. The Trial Court ruling from 7/21/14 that there is no difference between the oral and written Temporary Orders is faulty as the Oral orders specify, additionally, that Mr. Stein file taxes jointly and share the refund. The Trial Court ruling from division 4 that the GAL determine my needs in terms of residence is arbitrary, contradictory to, and overrules Temporary Orders from division 7.[48] Event ID: 195[49] Event ID: 259[50] Signed Order submitted 7/2/15[51] While Colorado Statutes state that the court err on the side of awarding more chattels to the less affluent spouse, there is no need to discuss Colorado Statutes in relation to this appeal and for the purpose of reversal. However, I did enclose documents showing that Mr. Stein is in possession of substantial marital assets and investments (Exhibit 1). I estimate our financial marital estate at $900k in addition to shared titles to the marital home inSedaliaand the Honda Fit. Mr. Stein is in possession of monthly earnings of $22k-$25k monthly (including salary from SAPAmerica) while my monthly income is $733 from rental of two premarital condos and an additional income of $1200 in maintenance from Mr. Stein.[52] This is self evident, as the civil department of the Boulder Sheriff's office didn't enforce the 6/12/15 ruling due to lack of jurisdiction.[53] Signed order submitted on 7/2/15[54] The current appeal.[55] Event ID: 39[56] Event ID: 30[57] The counsel purposely stalled on timely filing the civil protection pleading.[58] Event ID: 48[59] Event ID: 51[60] Keeping an attorney on record where there is no trust violates procedural constitutional rights of parties. No lay person and not even a professional psychiatrist are in a position to dismiss this mistrust as a mental disease. The courts have never been able to obtain admissible medical opinions supporting the appointment of a GAL. All available medical opinions strongly oppose any appointment or involvement of a GAL and support my right for pro-se representation. At this point in the case misconduct is manifestly clear and the Trial Court judge in division 4 should recuse her position in this case.[61] Event ID: 61 requesting the court to accept Mr. Wolf's Motion to Withdraw due to lack of trust and lack of attorney-client relationship and due to fear for my life. The criminal protection from case People Vs. Harlan Leigh Stein, 13M1767, was still in place until 3/27/15 and I was eager to represent my interest in a civil protection order pro-se.[62] Event ID: 60 & 61[63] My request Event ID 60; Mr. Wolf's Motion to Withdraw, stating lack of trust on my part, Event ID 61. Mr. Wolf's statement regarding lack of trust on his part doesn't constitute admissible psychiatric opinion and is entirely irrelevant in terms of appointment of a GAL. Mr. Wolf's duty was to file for a dismissal from the case and oppose the appointment of a GAL. He was kept on the case by misconduct by the Trial Court in division 4. The NY times recently published an article regarding problems with attorney licensing, as the Rules of Professional Conduct are not part of the law.[64] As the case progressed, the intention of the Trial Court to wave my legal entitlements through prevention of procedural constitutional right by misconduct becomes undeniable. Reversal should be automatic.[65] Accepting Mr. Wolf as a measure of justice constitutes sale of justice and misconduct.[66] Event ID: 62, Mr. Wolf's Motion to Withdraw[67] Transcripts of telephone conferences were commissioned and paid for in full in a Designation of Record that excludes transcripts and recordings from partially recorded hearings. Transcribing Solutions submitted no transcripts of telephone conferences.[68] Event ID: 98[69] As a matter of sale of justice, Mr. Wolf denied the domestic assault of 10/11/13, along with the confession by Mr. Stein, recorded in the police report and well documented injuries. The stipulation regarding civil protection was reversed and once the criminal case reopens I will seek civil protection pro-se and free from sale of justice. My claim for compensation for pain and suffering stems in part from prevention of a civil protection order. The stress of fear for my life retarded the healing and recovery process by creating more inflammation and the tightening of the fascia.[70] Hence the 3/19/15 Motion to Expand the Authority of the GAL is automatically reversible as it grossly misrepresents my position and the Trial Court in division 4 prevented me from being heard on the matter. The court ruling in this matter constitutes an arbitrary use of absolute power and a misconduct.[71] On 3/10/14 Mr. Wolf assured me that he intends to object to the appointment of a GAL. My trust broke as soon as I received a delayed copy of a position statement that misrepresents my position. Trust broke on all levels, and the court was informed.[72] Event ID: 80[73] Event ID:114. Ahalf hour telephone conference that is fully recorded, and the complete transcript was submitted at appeal 14CA1852.[74] Event ID: 87[75] I'm a licensed real estate broker, the owner of two premarital rental properties who manages her own properties exclusively including all accounting. I'm a member of BARHA and CAI, a former teacher, a former OA manager and a current Board of Directors on an OA. I'm a safe driver with no criminal record whatsoever, a graduate of theBoulder CitizenPoliceAcademy, have a Master's Degree, etc.[76] Event ID: 98 Such appointments for personal gain, beyond mere disregard to the law and the justice system, constitutes a betrayal of public trust. I will request the recusal of the Trial Court judge in division4.[77] Event ID:114 Afull recording and a complete transcript were commissioned on 10/21/14 and filed with appeal 14CA1852.[78] Event ID: 170[79] A 2 hour mental evaluation was commissioned to diagnose the 4 cognitive difficulties conspicuous in their absence. I suffered chest pains due to chest crowdedness in movement of the ribs due to the domestic assault. The GAL separated me from the osteopath I was seeing and I suffered setbacks to my health. I wasn't able to show up to the meeting as I was under instructions to go to the ER should any pain arise due to effort. The Court Evaluator who is also a mental evaluator spoke to me for an hour and studied independent treatment notes and two treatment plans. He was forced to object to the appointment of a GAL as harmful to me. The Trial Court judge excluded his admissible medical opinion and didn't record the hearing. The ruling is arbitrary and misrepresents testimonies. The expert felt that mental evaluation wasn't necessary because the record of the case excludes the appointment of a GAL.[80] Event ID: 80[81] Event ID: 170[82] Event ID: 195, allowing Mr. Stein to secure by removal any and all chattels[83] Signed order submitted on 7/2/15. Order for Mr. Stein to remove all of my personal chattels to the marital home, in an insecure removal in which I wasn't heard, where he was to take possession of them.[84] Event ID:235, astipulation regarding the authority of the GAL that contradicts the provisions of Special Statutory Proceedings and constitutes sale of justice and misconduct on the part of the Trial Court judge in division 4.[85] Event ID: 235 The GAL then proceeded by filing a list of witnesses for Permanent Orders on 1/15/15 that excludes financial expert opinions and medical expert opinion. This constitutes sale of justice and gross misconduct on the part of the Trial Court judge in division 4. These are grounds for recusal. See Exhibit 2. Virginia Fraser Able is notorious for interviewing parties in partially recording hearings. She'll ask "What day was it when you were married." If the person says "Tuesday" she'll declare "That's fraud. I checked and you got married on a Thursday." The judge will then record her arbitrary rulings insinuating that documents presented by the party are fraudulent. Her minute orders will reflect the same. These are grounds for recusal.[86] Some medical documents were filed with the Trial Court and others are filed separately with this case.[87] An all Jewish Orthodox jury contradicting the evidence in this case on retrial will attract public interest and will not prevent civil compensation for pain and suffering or future medical and health expenses. It should not prevent a civil protection order in county court short of misconduct.[88] Exhibit 3[89] The Honorable Court is not in a position to make determinations in terms of psychology. Amendment of the authority of the judicial branch has recently captured public opinion along with misconduct by federal justices. Any lay psychiatric "evaluations" by justices constitute misconduct. The Designation of Record proves misconduct by all three Trial Court judges.[90] The chief justice of the 18th district, Chief Judge Samour, should dismiss the chief justice in division 1 of Douglas County Combined Courts, Judge King, if he wishes to maintain the trust of the public.[91] Event ID: 27[92] Inability to uphold one's interests in court doesn't constitute legal grounds for the appointment of a state-funded GAL when the motion is filed by the opposing counsel. Stipulations aren't grounds for appointment of a state-funded GAL. Nothing short of admissible psychiatric evaluations constitutes sufficient grounds for the appointment of a GAL - and the Trial Court was helpless in obtaining those due to independent treatment notes obtained by me in the course of over one year. These treatment notes are filed with the Stein Vs. Stein case. DORA would sanction the license of anyone trying to endorse the appointment of a GAL.[93] Event ID: 60 my request to dismiss Mr. Wolf so I can access justice.[94] Any and all involvement by the GAL would constitute misconduct on the part of the Honorable Court and sale of justice and automatically qualifies me for an appeal at the Supreme Court level. I trust the Honorable Court to automatically reverse all rulings and hearings.[95] There is a harmful error in the minute order from the unrecorded Initial Conference Hearing from 8/28/13 (Event ID: 6). Mr. Stein was represented by Mr. Uslan while I arrived pro-se. A copy of his retainer agreement with Mr. Stein is filed with Appeal 14CA1852, as well as notes from Bonnie Shields testifying to the same. Mediation notes from 11/22/13 properly represent Mr. Uslan as Mr. Stein's counsel. I also filed my Financial Disclosures pro-se (Event ID: 12).

No.The oldest pending non-family¹ litigation I’ve encountered is about 15 years (and that only happens in complex cases with multiple interlocutory appeals are allowed) or nine years with no appeals.The purpose of litigation is the resolution of your dispute. If you are the plaintiff and resist the resolution of the dispute long enough, the court will eventually conclude you’re guilty of abuse of process, as the apparent motivation would be harassment of the defendant. Defendants who prolong litigation have slightly more understandable motives in avoiding judgment, but the court will get tired of them after a while too. The court is there to work “justice”, which is compromised by delaying either exoneration of the defendant or award of judgment in a meritorious claim, and the judgment may be increased by delay damages or attorney fees if the case takes too long to resolve. A party who is adjudged to have been vexatiously delaying the process can be sanctioned, usually by fines, but the sanctions may also include throwing the case out of court.If the lawsuit is “frivolous”, it will likely be dismissed sooner rather than later. It’s much harder to drag out a frivolous case than a meritorious case. Dismissal may occur on the pleadings via a demurrer (at or near the outset) or on a motion for summary judgment (which is a motion filed on the close of discovery by a party that says “on the evidence thus far produced in discovery, there’s no way the other party can win”).Typically there are court rules, such as Fed.R.Civ.P. 16, that provide the court the authority to set case management deadlines. Even in the absence of a formal rule specifying this authority, courts have it as an inherent power. These deadlines are often extended once or twice, but there is no right to an extension; either the parties will agree to it, or the extension will be granted for cause shown, and after a while, the court will deny further extensions; I have seen this happen even when both parties did agree to it. This will result in the case being called for trial, ready or not.Exclusive of any time spent waiting for appeals, the case should reach the trial stage in not more than four years. I know of one pending after nine years, but it involves relatively complicated procedural issues with lots of parties and discovery disputes, and it appears that there were multiple causes of the delay in those situations; the lawsuit has not been fiercely dragged out by particular parties.Usually there’s one appeal available as of right. Any further appeals, which might be to the state supreme court or the United States supreme court, are discretionary and will only be granted if you have identified (1) a significant and interesting area of the law and (2) a compelling reason why the supreme court should consider the case, which might include conflicting decisions below. “The trial court got the facts wrong” is not a convincing rationale for a discretionary appeal. For appeals to the U.S.S.Ct. from a state court, you also must articulate a plausible ground for federal jurisdiction or point to the state court’s reliance on federal constitutional interpretation.You shouldn’t be able to find a lawyer willing to drag your case out “forever”. Although a client to whom “money were no object” would be a pipe dream of me and a lot of other attorneys, there’s an ethical duty on a lawyer’s part not to advance frivolous or otherwise improper arguments to a court. See R.P.C. 3.1:A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of existing law.This is backed up in every U.S. court by court rules, cf. Pa. R.C.P. No. 1023.4, 22 N.Y.C.R.R. 130–1.1, Fed.R.Civ.P. 11, etc, allowing the court to sanction parties for filing or advancing frivolous, dilatory, or vexatious positions. These sanctions may take the form of having to pay fines to the court, having to pay the other side’s lawyer, having papers stricken or the case dismissed outright, or limits on the the evidence that may be presented at trial, as the court finds appropriate. The lawyer who participates in this process can also be held liable, which provides us a pretty good reason to tell a vexatious client to go pound sand.(2) Subject to the limitations in subdivision (b), the sanction may consist of, or include, (i) directives of a nonmonetary nature, including the striking of the offensive litigation document or portion of the litigation document, (ii) an order to pay a penalty into court, or, (iii) if imposed on motion and warranted for effective deterrence, an order directing payment to the movant of some or all of the reasonable attorneys’ fees and other expenses incurred as a direct result of the violation.(3) Except in exceptional circumstances, a law firm shall be held jointly responsible for violations committed by its partners, associates and employees.Pa. R.C.P. No. 1023.4. In addition to these rules, in Pennsylvania there is a statutory provision allowing parties to be held liable after the fact for malicious litigation:(a) Elements of action.—A person who takes part in the procurement, initiation or continuation of civil proceedings against another is subject to liability to the other for wrongful use of civil proceedings:(1) he acts in a grossly negligent manner or without probable cause and primarily for a purpose other than that of securing the proper discovery, joinder of parties or adjudication of the claim in which the proceedings are based; and(2) the proceedings have terminated in favor of the person against whom they are brought.42 Pa.C.S. § 8351. “Person” includes attorneys: “An attorney who knowingly prosecutes a groundless action to accomplish a malicious purpose may be held accountable in an action for malicious use of process.” Dietrich Indus., Inc. v. Abrams, 309 Pa.Super. 202, 208, 455 A.2d 119, 123 (1982).² A so-called “Dragonetti Act claim” (named after Joseph Dragonetti, a reporter who was unjustly sued and afterward pushed for the enactment of the Act)³ may provide for treble actual damages. § 8353. And, of course, an attorney who partakes in unreasonable litigation tactics may find themself ruining their reputation before the court and facing disciplinary sanctions, like this guy, who made baseless allegations of bias on the part of several judges, and was suspended from practice for five years: In re Robert B. Surrick, 749 A.2d 441 (Pa. 2000).¹ Custody and support cases, while not typically continuously litigated, may nevertheless go on for a very long time. I was involved in one custody case for eight years in a series of modification proceedings. The child is now 19, mercifully for her and the parties, and her majority has removed the authority of the courts to decide her fate. Support cases are also subject to modification for as long as a child remains unemancipated or as long as there are significant arrears on the case, whichever is longer. The oldest open cases in the support office where I work now have been around since the late 1980s, albeit these are now arrears only.² A recent trial court decision, which I think is incorrect, held otherwise: Can Lawyers Get Away With Anything? Court Declares the Dragonetti Act Unconstitutional³ Bochetto & Lentz, Philadelphia Dragonetti Act Lawyers – Filing A Lawsuit With No Probable Cause

This list is not counting Trump threatening to nuke Iran or fast-tracking oil drilling in nature reserves in Alaska (which happened last week). Nor does it count his march against science, the environment nor any of his perverse sexual, unpatriotic, or just downright rude personal faux pas.No… this is simply a list of all of his human rights violations.Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights RollbacksSince Trump took office in January 2017, his administration has worked aggressively to turn back the clock on (y)our nation’s civil and human rights progress. Here’s how.2017On January 27, Trump signed an executive order – the first version of his Muslim ban – that discriminated against Muslims and banned refugees.On January 31, under new Chairman Ajit Pai’s leadership, the Federal Communications Commission refused to defend critical components of its prison phone rate rules in federal court – rules that were ultimately struck down in June.On February 3, Trump signed an executive order outlining principles for regulating the U.S. financial system and calling for a 120-day review of existing laws, like the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The order was viewed as Trump’s opening attack on consumer protection laws.On February 3, the FCC rescinded its 2014 Joint Sales Agreement (JSA) guidance, which had led to the only increase in television diversity in recent years.On February 3, FCC Chairman Pai revoked the Lifeline Broadband Provider (LBP) designations for nine broadband service providers, reducing the number of providers offering broadband and thus decreasing the competitive forces available to drive down prices.On February 7, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting H.J. Res. 57, a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to overturn a Department of Education accountability rule that clarifies states’ obligations under the Every Student Succeeds Act. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes this resolution.On February 9, Trump signed three executive orders “to fight crime, gangs, and drugs; restore law and order; and support the dedicated men and women of law enforcement.” The orders, though vague, were viewed suspiciously by civil rights organizations.On February 10, Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell of Washington wrote to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos after the centralized resource website for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) became inaccessible to the public for more than a week. On February 17, DeVos issued a statement blaming the previous administration for neglecting the site.On February 21, the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo updating immigration enforcement guidance, massively expanding the number of people subject to detention and deportation. The guidance drastically increased the use of expedited removal and essentially eliminated the priorities for deportation.On February 22, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights jointly rescinded Title IX guidance clarifying protections under the law for transgender students.On February 23, Attorney General Sessions withdrew an earlier Justice Department memo that set a goal of reducing and ultimately ending the department’s use of private prisons.On February 27, the Department of Justice dropped the federal government’s longstanding position that a Texas voter ID law under legal challenge was intentionally racially discriminatory, despite having successfully advanced that argument in multiple federal courts. The district court subsequently rejected the position of the Sessions Justice Department and concluded the law was passed with discriminatory intent.On March 6, the Department of Justice withdrew its motion for a preliminary injunction against North Carolina’s anti-transgender HB 2 law.On March 6, Trump signed a revised executive order restricting travel to the United States by citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen and drastically cutting back refugee admissions.On March 6, a week after Trump called on lawmakers to repeal the Affordable Care Act during his address to Congress, House Republicans released a proposal to replace the ACA with a law that would end the Medicaid program as we know it and defund Planned Parenthood.On March 6, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed ending the collection of data on LGBTQ individuals with disabilities, removing questions on LGBTQ demographics from the Centers for Independent Living Annual Program Performance Report survey.On March 10, the Department of Housing and Urban Development withdrew a survey proposed in the Federal Register meant to assess the efficacy and replicability of HUD-funded programs to address LGBTQ youth homelessness. According to its own data, 40 percent of young people experiencing homelessness identify as LGBTQ, so ensuring that its programs are adequately meeting the needs of young LGBTQ people is critical to HUD meeting its own mission. After significant public outcry, the assessment survey was eventually reinstated.On March 13, the Department of Health and Human Services released a draft of the annual National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants, which gathers data on people who receive services funded through the Older Americans Act. HHS’s draft collection instrument omitted the questions on sexual orientation and gender identity asked on the previous year’s survey. After receiving nearly 14,000 comments on the data collection proposal and after facing bipartisan opposition from Congress, HHS restored the question on sexual orientation but omitted a question that yielded information on gender identity.On March 16, the Trump administration released a budget blueprint that proposed a $54 billion increase in military spending that would come from $54 billion in direct cuts to non-defense programs. The blueprint also proposed spending $4.1 billion through 2018 on the beginnings of construction of a wall through communities on the U.S.-Mexico border.On March 17, the Department of Housing and Urban Development removed links to four key resource documents from its website, which informed emergency shelters on best practices for serving transgender people facing homelessness and complying with HUD regulations.On March 22, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes. The White House issued a statement supporting the Senate’s motion to proceed to this legislation on July 24.On March 27, Trump signed a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, which repealed a Department of Education accountability rule finalized last year that would clarify states’ obligations under the Every Student Succeeds Act.On March 27, Trump signed a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, which repealed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. The order, signed by President Obama, represented a much-needed step forward in ensuring that the federal contractor community is providing safe and fair workplaces for employees by encouraging compliance with federal labor and civil rights laws, and prohibiting the use of mandatory arbitration of certain disputes.On March 29, the U.S. Census Bureau asserted that there was “no federal data need” to justify the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data in the American Community Survey (ACS). The bureau’s original submission to Congress included a table suggesting that it planned to collect data on sexual orientation and gender identity in the ACS starting in the next iteration of the survey – but by the end of the day, the bureau hastily removed any reference to these topics in a revised submission. During the Obama administration, at least four federal agencies asked the bureau to add these questions.On March 29, The Washington Post reported that the Department of Education decided to terminate the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunity grant program, which helps local districts devise ways to boost socioeconomic diversity within their schools.In a March 31 memo, Sessions ordered a sweeping review of consent decrees with law enforcement agencies relating to police conduct – a crucial tool in the Justice Department’s efforts to ensure constitutional and accountable policing. The department also tried, unsuccessfully, to block a federal court in Baltimore from approving a consent decree between the city and the Baltimore Police Department to rein in discriminatory police practices that the department itself had negotiated over a multi-year period.On April 3, Attorney General Jeff Sessions tried to back out of a consent decree to address civil rights violations by the Baltimore Police Department.On April 11, the administration proposed removing a question from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) regarding preschool suspension and expulsion. Without access to valid and reliable data, parents, advocates, educators, service providers, researchers, policymakers, and the public will not have the information they need to ensure early childhood settings are developmentally appropriate and nondiscriminatory.On April 13, Trump signed a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, which overturned the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ final rule updating the regulations governing the Title X family planning program – a vital source of family planning and related preventive care for low-income, uninsured, and young people across the country.On April 14, the Department of Justice voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s anti-transgender HB 2 after the law was modified – although private challenges continued.On April 26, Trump released an outline of a tax reform plan that was viewed largely as a tax giveaway for the wealthy and big corporations.On April 26, Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to conduct a study on the federal government’s role in education.On May 2, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting H.R. 1180, the Working Families Flexibility Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes.On May 4, Trump signed an executive order that he claimed overturned the Johnson Amendment (though it did not), which precludes tax-exempt organizations, including places of worship, from engaging in any political campaign activity and would curtail the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act.On May 11, Trump signed an executive order creating the so-called Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity headed by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has a history of trying to suppress the vote in Kansas.On May 12, Sessions announced in a two-page memo that DOJ was abandoning its Smart on Crime initiative that had been hailed as a positive step forward in rehabilitating drug users and reducing the enormous costs of warehousing inmates.On May 23, Trump released his fiscal year 2018 budget that included massive, unnecessary tax cuts for the wealthy and large corporations, which would be paid for by slashing basic living standards for the most vulnerable and by attacking critical programs like Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicaid, food assistance, and more.On May 23, Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposed eliminating the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and transferring its functions to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). This would have impeded the work of both the OFCCP and the EEOC as each have distinct missions and expertise, and would have thereby undermined the civil rights protections that employers and workers have relied on for almost 50 years.On June 5, Trump released an infrastructure plan that focuses on putting public assets into private hands, creating another giveaway to wealthy corporations and millionaires at the expense of working families and communities.On June 6, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued unclear new instructions on transgender student discrimination.On June 8, OCR’s acting head sent a memo to OCR staff discouraging systemic investigations in favor of individual investigations of discrimination.On June 14, DeVos decided to delay implementation of and to renegotiate the Borrower Defense to Repayment and Gainful Employment regulations – important regulations that had been designed to protect students from predatory conduct by for-profit schools.On June 14, the Department of Education withdrew, without explanation, a 2016 finding that an Ohio school district discriminated against a transgender girl.On June 15, the administration rescinded President Obama’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) program, an initiative that – had it gone into effect – would have offered a pathway to citizenship for immigrant parents with children who are citizens or residents of the United States.On June 27, Labor Secretary Acosta requested information on the Obama-era overtime rule, signaling his intent to lower the salary threshold of the overtime rule.On June 27, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting H.R. 3003, the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes.On June 27, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting H.R. 3004, Kate’s Law, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes.On June 28, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division sent a letter to 44 states demanding extensive information on how they maintain their voter rolls. This request was made on the same day that President Trump’s so-called Commission on Election Integrity sent letters to all 50 states demanding intrusive and highly sensitive personal data about all registered voters.On July 24, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting H.J. Res 111, a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s final rule on forced arbitration clauses. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes the resolution. The White House issued a statement on October 24 opposing the Senate companion resolution.On July 26, Trump declared in a series of tweets that he was barring transgender people from serving in the military. He followed through with a presidential memo on August 25, though the issue is still being challenged in the courts.On July 26, the Department of Justice filed a legal brief arguing that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation – a decision that contravened recent court decisions and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance.On August 1, The New York Times reported that the “Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.” In a move without recent precedent, this investigation and enforcement effort was planned to be run out of the Civil Rights Division’s front office by political appointees, instead of by experienced career staff in the division’s educational opportunities section.On August 2, Trump announced his support of Republican-backed legislation that would slash legal immigration in half over a decade.On August 7, the Justice Department filed a brief in the Supreme Court in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute arguing that it should be easier for states to purge registered voters from their rolls – reversing not only its longstanding legal interpretation, but also the position it had taken in the lower courts in that case.On August 28, Sessions lifted the Obama administration’s ban on the transfer of some military surplus items to domestic law enforcement – rescinding guidelines that were created in the wake of Ferguson to protect the public from law enforcement misuse of military-grade weapons.On September 5, Sessions announced that the administration was rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.On September 7, the Department of Justice filed a brief with the Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission arguing that businesses have a right to discriminate against LGBTQ customers.On September 12, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting H.R. 3697, the Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes.On September 15, the Department of Justice ended the Community Oriented Policing Services’ Collaborative Reform Initiative, a Justice Department program that aimed to help build trust between police officers and the communities they serve.On September 22, DeVos announced that the Department of Education was rescinding guidance related to Title IX and schools’ obligations regarding sexual violence and educational opportunity.On September 24, Trump issued the third version of his Muslim ban which, unlike the previous versions, was of indefinite duration.On September 27, the Trump administration and Republican leadership in Congress unveiled tax principles that would provide trillions in dollars of unnecessary tax cuts to millionaires, billionaires, and wealthy corporations.On October 2, DeVos rescinded 72 guidance documents outlining the rights of students with disabilities, though it wasn’t until October 21 until the public learned of the rescissions.On October 4, the Department of Justice filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia asking the court to dismiss a lawsuit against the president’s transgender military ban.On October 5, Sessions reversed a Justice Department policy which clarified that transgender workers are protected from discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.On October 6, the Department of Justice issued sweeping religious liberty guidance to federal agencies, which will create a license to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals and others.On October 8, the White House released a list of hard-line immigration principles – a list of demands that included funding a border wall, deporting Central American children seeking sanctuary, and curbing grants to sanctuary cities, effectively stalling any possible bipartisan agreement on a bill to protect Dreamers.On October 12, Trump signed an executive order to undermine health care and, later that day, announced that he would end subsidies for certain health care plans.On October 27, the Department of Education announced it was withdrawing nearly 600 policy documents regarding K-12 and higher education.On November 1, Trump signed a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, which repealed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s rule on forced arbitration. Overturning the rule will enable big banks, payday lenders, and other financial companies to force victims of fraud, discrimination, or other unlawful conduct into a “kangaroo court” process where their claims are decided by hired arbitration firms rather than by judges and juries – harming consumers and undermining civil rights and consumer protection laws.On November 6, the Trump administration announced it will terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Nicaragua.On November 14, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes. The White House subsequently issued statements supporting this legislation on November 30 (the Senate version) and on December 18 (the conference report).On November 16, the Federal Communications Commission voted to gut Lifeline, the program dedicated to bringing phone and internet service within reach for people of color, low-income people, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities, with particularly egregious consequences for tribal areas. They also voted to eliminate several rules promoting competition and diversity in the broadcast media, undermining ownership chances for women and people of color.On November 20, the Trump administration announced it would terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation in 18 months for approximately 59,000 Haitians living in the United States.On November 24, Trump appointed Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). As a member of Congress, Mulvaney supported abolishing the consumer bureau and has in the past referred to the CFPB as a “sick, sad” joke.On December 4, the Department of Labor proposed changing its longstanding position codified in regulation that prohibited employers from pooling together tips and redistributing them to workers who don’t traditionally earn tips.On December 12, the Department of Justice wrote to acting Census Bureau Director Ron Jarmin requesting a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census. It was an untimely and unnecessarily intrusive request that would destroy any chance for an accurate count, discard years of careful research, and increase costs significantly.On December 21, it was reported that Sessions rescinded 25 guidance documents, including a letter sent to chief judges and court administrators to help state and local efforts to reform harmful practices of imposing fees and fines on poor people.2018On January 4, Sessions rescinded guidance that had allowed states, with minimal federal interference, to legalize marijuana. This move will further reignite the War on Drugs.On January 8, Trump re-nominated a slate of unqualified and biased judicial nominees, including two rated Not Qualified by the American Bar Association.On January 8, the administration announced it would terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for nearly 200,000 Salvadorans.On January 11, the Trump administration released new guidelines that allow states to seek waivers to require Medicaid recipients to work – requirements that represent a throwback to rejected racial stereotypes.On January 12, the Trump administration approved a waiver allowing Kentucky to require Medicaid recipients to work.On January 16, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Mulvaney’s leadership announced it would reconsider the agency’s payday lending rule.On January 17, the administration announced its decision to bar citizens from Haiti from receiving H2-A and H2-B visas.On January 18, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a proposed rule to allow health care providers to discriminate against patients, and within the department’s Office for Civil Rights, a new division – the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division – to address related claims.On January 18, the CFPB abruptly dropped a lawsuit against four online payday lenders who unlawfully made loans of up to 950 percent APR in at least 17 states.On January 25, the Census Bureau announced that the questionnaire for the 2018 End-to-End Census Test will use race and ethnicity questions from the 2010 Census instead of updated questions recommended by Census Bureau staff. This suggests that the Office of Management and Budget will not revise the official standards for collecting and reporting this data, despite recommendations from a federal agency working group to do so.On February 1, The New York Times reported that the Department of Justice was effectively closing its Office for Access to Justice, which was designed to make access to legal aid more accessible.On February 1, reports surfaced claiming Trump’s Labor Department concealed an economic analysis that found working people could lose billions of dollars in wages under its proposal to roll back an Obama-era rule – a rule that protects working people in tipped industries from having their tips taken away by their employers.On February 1, multiple sources reported that acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney had transferred the consumer agency’s Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity from the Supervision, Enforcement, and Fair Lending division to the director’s office. The move essentially gutted the unit responsible for enforcing anti-lending discrimination laws.On February 2, the Trump administration approved a waiver allowing Indiana to require some Medicaid recipients to work.On February 12, the Trump administration released its Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal, which would deny critical health care to those most in need simply to bankroll the president’s wall through border communities. The proposal would also eliminate the Community Relations Service – a Justice Department office established by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – which has been a key tool that helps address discrimination, conflicts, and tensions in communities around the country.On February 12, the Trump administration released an infrastructure proposal that would reward the rich and special interests at the expense of low-income communities and communities of color and leave behind too many American communities and those most in need.On February 12, BuzzFeed News reported that the U.S. Department of Education would no longer investigate complaints filed by transgender students who have been banned from using the restrooms that correspond with their gender identity. On the same day, the department released a statement saying Trump’s budget “protects vulnerable students” – a dubious claim.On February 26, the U.S. Department of Education proposed to delay implementation of a rule that enforces the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The rule implements the IDEA’s provisions regarding significant disproportionality in the identification, placement, and discipline of students with disabilities with regard to race and ethnicity.On March 5, the Trump administration approved Arkansas’ request to require some Medicaid recipients to work.On March 5, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education released a new Case Processing Manual (CPM) that creates greater hurdles for people filing complaints and allows dismissal of civil rights complaints based on the number of times an individual has filed.On March 5, a Department of Housing and Urban Development memo announced Secretary Ben Carson’s consideration of revising the agency’s mission statement and removing anti-discrimination language and promises of inclusive communities.On March 12, Attorney General Sessions announced the Justice Department’s ‘school safety’ plan – a plan that civil rights advocates criticized as militarizing schools, overpolicing children, and harming students, disproportionately students of color.On March 14, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting H.R. 4909, the Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes.On March 23, Trump issued new orders to ban most transgender people from serving in the military – the latest iteration of a ban that he had initially announced in a series of tweets in July 2017.On March 23, Trump signed a spending bill that included the STOP School Violence Act, which civil rights organizations are concerned will exacerbate the school-to-prison pipeline crisis, further criminalize historically marginalized children, and increase the militarization of, and over-policing in, schools and communities of color.On March 26, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that he had directed the Census Bureau to add an untested and unnecessary question to the 2020 Census form, which would ask the citizenship status of every person in America.On April 3, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos restored recognition of for-profit school accreditor ACICS, which the prior administration had terminated as a federal aid gatekeeper based on ACICS’s documented failures to set, monitor, or enforce standards at the schools it accredited, including the now-defunct Corinthian, ITT, and FastTrain.On April 6, Attorney General Sessions announced that he had notified all U.S. Attorney’s offices along the southwest border of a new “zero tolerance” policy toward people trying to enter the country – a policy that quickly, and inhumanely, separated hundreds of children from their families.On April 10, a federal official announced that the Department of Justice was halting the Legal Orientation Program, which offers legal assistance to immigrants.On April 10, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to push for work requirements for low-income people in America who receive federal assistance, including Medicaid and SNAP.On April 11, the Bureau of Justice Statistics announced that it will stop asking 16- and 17-year-olds to disclose voluntarily and confidentially their gender identity and sexual orientation on the National Crime Victimization Survey.On April 17, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting S.J. Res. 57, a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s guidance on indirect auto financing. The sole purpose of the resolution is to undermine the ability of the CFPB to enforce laws against racial and ethnic discrimination in auto lending, which is why The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes it.On April 25, Secretary Ben Carson proposed changes to federal housing subsidies that could triple rent for some households and make it easier to impose work requirements.On April 26, the Trump administration announced it would terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation in 12 months for approximately 9,000 Nepalese immigrants.On May 3, Trump signed an executive order creating a White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative tasked with working on “religious liberty” issues across federal agencies. The order deleted protections for beneficiaries receiving federally funded services from religious groups.On May 4, the Trump administration announced it would terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation in 18 months for approximately 57,000 Honduran immigrants.On May 7, the Trump administration approved New Hampshire’s request to require some Medicaid recipients to work or participate in other “community engagement activities.”On May 11, the Federal Bureau of Prisons released changes to its Transgender Offender Manual that rolled back protections allowing transgender inmates to use facilities, including bathrooms and cell blocks, that correspond to their gender identity.On May 13, The New York Times reported that the Department of Education had “effectively killed investigations into possibly fraudulent activities at several large for-profit colleges where top hires of Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, had previously worked” by reassigning, marginalizing, or instructing its fraud investigators to focus on other matters.On May 18, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it would be publishing three separate notices to indefinitely suspend implementation of the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.On May 21, Trump signed a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, which repealed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) guidance on indirect auto financing.On May 21, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes.On May 22, the Trump administration issued a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) designed to block access to health care under Title X and deny women information about their reproductive health care options.On May 24, Trump signed the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, which will undermine one of our nation’s key civil rights laws and weaken consumer protections enacted after the 2008 financial crisis. The law rolls back more expansive Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data requirements for banks that generate fewer than 500 loans or lines of credit each year, thereby exempting 85 percent of banks and credit unions.On May 24, the Department of Education announced that it does not plan to implement rules designed to protect students in online degree programs from being taken advantage of by schools that load students up with debt but offer useless degrees, and instead plans to delay implementation of the rules and rewrite them.On June 6, Mick Mulvaney fired all 25 members of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Consumer Advisory Board.On June 8, a Department of Justice filing argued that the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions are unconstitutional. The brief was signed by Chad Readler, a Justice Department official who Trump nominated (and Senate Republicans confirmed) to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.On June 11, Attorney General Sessions ruled that fear of domestic or gang violence was not grounds for asylum in the United States.On June 11, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director L. Francis Cissna announced the creation of a denaturalization task force in a push to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship.On June 11, the Department of Justice announced that it would delay implementation of a permanent program for collecting information on arrest-related deaths until Fiscal Year 2020, a full five years after the Death in Custody Reporting Act was signed into law and two years after DOJ last published its near-final compliance guidelines.On June 12, the Department of Justice sued the state of Kentucky to force it to “systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the registration records.” This voter purge lawsuit was filed one day after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Ohio’s voter purges in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute.On June 18, Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, announced that the United States was withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council.On June 27, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting H.R. 6139, the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes.On July 3, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinded guidance from the Departments of Justice and Education that provides a roadmap to implement voluntary diversity and integration programs in higher education consistent with Supreme Court holdings on the issue.On July 10, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced cuts to navigator funding for outreach to hard-to-reach communities for the fall 2018 Affordable Care Act open enrollment period.On July 25, the Department of Education proposed new borrower defense rules, which would further exacerbate inequalities – making the already unfair and ineffective student loan servicing system even more harmful to all students, particularly to borrowers of color. The proposal would strip away student borrower rights, end key deterrents of predatory school conduct, and make it nearly impossible for students hurt by school misconduct to get loan relief.On July 26, the Trump administration failed to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite children and families separated at the border.On July 30, Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a religious liberty task force at the Department of Justice, which many saw as a taxpayer funded effort to license discrimination against LGBTQ people and others.On August 10, the Department of Labor encouraged the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) staff to grant broad religious exemptions to federal contractors with religious-based objections to complying with Executive Order 11246, and deleted material from a prior OFCCP FAQ on sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination protections that previously clarified the limited scope of allowable religious exemptions.On August 13, Secretary Ben Carson proposed changes to the Obama-era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which aimed to combat segregation in housing policy.On August 15, the Federal Register published a Trump administration proposal to restrict protest rights in Washington, D.C. by closing 80 percent of the White House sidewalk, putting new limits on spontaneous demonstrations, and opening the door to charging fees for protesting.On August 29, The New York Times reported that the Department of Education is preparing rules that would “narrow the definition of sexual harassment, holding schools accountable only for formal complaints filed through proper authorities and for conduct said to have occurred on their campuses. They would also establish a higher legal standard to determine whether schools improperly addressed complaints.”On August 30, the Department of Justice filed an amicus brief opposing Harvard College’s motion for summary judgement in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard, choosing to oppose constitutionally sound strategies that colleges and universities use to expand educational opportunity for students of all backgrounds.On September 5, the Trump administration sent sweeping subpoenas to the North Carolina state elections board and 44 county elections boards requesting voter records be turned over by September 25. Two months before the midterm elections, civil rights advocates worried this effort would lead to voter suppression and intimidation.On September 6, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services announced a proposal to withdraw from the Flores Settlement Agreement. The Flores Agreement is a set of protections for underage migrant children in government custody.On September 13, the National Labor Relations Board proposed weakening the “joint-employer standard” under the National Labor Relations Act, which would make it difficult for working people to bring the companies that share control over their terms and conditions of employment to the bargaining table.On October 1, a policy change at the Department of State took effect saying that the Trump administration would no longer issue family visas to same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats or employees of international organizations who work in the United States.On October 10, the Department of Homeland Security’s proposed ‘public charge’ rule was published in the Federal Register. Under the rule, immigrants who apply for a green card or visa could be deemed a ‘public charge’ and turned away if they earn below 250 percent of the federal poverty line and use any of a wide range of public programs.On October 12, the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest opposing a consent decree negotiated by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to overhaul the Chicago Police Department.On October 15, Trump vetoed a resolution, passed by both chambers of Congress, that would have terminated his declaration of a national emergency on the southern border with Mexico.On October 16, the administration released its fall 2017 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The document details the regulatory and deregulatory actions that federal agencies plan to make in the coming months, including harmful civil and human rights rollbacks.On October 19, the Department of Justice ended its agreement to monitor the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County and the Shelby County Detention Center in Tennessee, which addressed discrimination against Black youth, unsafe conditions, and no due process at hearings.On October 21, The New York Times reported that the Department of Health and Human Services is considering an interpretation of Title IX that “would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with” – effectively erasing protections for transgender people.On October 22, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new guidance on the Affordable Care Act’s 1332 waivers that would expand a state’s flexibility to establish insurance markets that don’t meet the requirements of the ACA.On October 24, the Department of Justice filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that federal civil rights law does not protect transgender workers from discrimination on the basis of their gender identity.On October 30, Axios reported that Trump intends to sign an executive order to end birthright citizenship. In a tweet the following day, Trump said “it will be ended one way or the other.”On October 31, the administration approved a waiver allowing Wisconsin to require Medicaid recipients to work. It was the first time a state that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act was allowed to impose work requirements.On November 5, the Department of Justice filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to circumvent three separate U.S. Courts of Appeals on litigation concerning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.On November 7, on his last day as Attorney General, Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum to gut the Department of Justice’s use of consent decrees.On November 8, the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice announced an interim final rule to block people from claiming asylum if they enter the United States outside legal ports of entry.On November 8, the Department of Labor rolled back guidance issued by the Obama administration that clarified that tipped workers must spend at least 80 percent of their time doing tipped work in order for employers to pay them the lower tipped minimum wage.On November 16, the Department of Education issued a draft Title IX regulation that represents a cruel attempt to silence sexual assault survivors and limit their educational opportunity – and could lead schools to do even less to prevent and respond to sexual violence and harassment.On November 23, the Office of Personnel Management rescinded guidance that helped federal agency managers understand how to support transgender federal workers and respect their rights (initially issued in 2011 and updates several times since), replacing it with vaguely worded guidance hostile to transgender working people.On December 11, Trump declared that he would be “proud to shut down the government” – which he did. It resulted in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history (35 days), which harmed federal workers, contractors, their families, and the communities that depend on them.On December 14, BuzzFeed News reported that the Department of Housing and Urban Development was quietly advising lenders to deny DACA recipients Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans.On December 18, the Trump administration’s School Safety Commission recommended rescinding Obama-era school discipline guidance, which was intended to assist states, districts, and schools in developing practices and policies to enhance school climate and comply with federal civil rights laws.On December 21, following the recommendation of Trump’s School Safety Commission, the Departments of Justice and Education rescinded the Dear Colleague Letter on the Nondiscriminatory Administration of School Discipline. Both departments jointly issued the guidance in January 2014.2019On January 3, The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration is considering rolling back disparate impact regulations that provide anti-discrimination protections to people of color, women, and others.On January 4, The Guardian reported that the Trump administration has stopped cooperating with and responding to UN investigators over potential human rights violations in the United States.On January 23, the Department of Health and Human Services granted a waiver to South Carolina to allow state-licensed child welfare agencies to discriminate in accordance with religious beliefs.On January 25, the Department of Homeland Security began implementing the Migrant Protection Protocols – also known as the Remain in Mexico policy – which forces Central Americans seeking asylum to return to Mexico, for an indefinite amount of time, while their claims are processed.On January 29, the Department of Justice reversed its position in a Texas voting rights case, saying the state should not need to have its voting changes pre-cleared with the federal government. Career voting rights lawyers at the department declined to sign the brief.On February 6, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – under the direction of Trump-appointed Director Kathy Kraninger – released its plan to roll back the central protections of the agency’s 2017 payday and car-title lending rule.On February 15, Trump announced that he would declare a national emergency on the southern border – an attempt to end-run the Congress in order to build a harmful and wasteful border wall.On February 22, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule to significantly undermine the Title X family planning program’s ability to properly serve its patients and to provide its hallmark quality care. The rule’s provisions will have far-reaching implications for all Title X-funded programs, the services provided, and the ability of patients to seek and receive high-quality, confidential family planning and preventive health care services.On February 25, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On February 26, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.J. Res. 46, a resolution terminating the national emergency on the southern border declared by President Trump, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports. On September 25, the White House issued a statement opposing the Senate’s companion resolution.On March 5, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 1, the For the People Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On March 7, the Department of Labor issued a proposed revision to the overtime rule, which proposes to raise the salary threshold to an amount ($35,308) far lower than the Obama Labor Department’s previously finalized rule ($47,476).On March 11, the Trump administration released its FY 2020 budget proposal, which requested $8.6 billion for a southern border wall, requested an inexplicably and irresponsibly low figure for 2020 Census operations, and proposed deeply troubling cuts to the social safety net – including cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and SNAP.On March 12, the Department of Defense issued guidance for enacting the transgender military ban to begin in 30 days.On March 25, the Trump administration said in an appeals court filing that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down.On April 11, the Trump administration ordered all federal agencies to put important policy decisions on hold until they have been reviewed by the White House, making it take even longer for independent regulators to respond to problems like risky lending practices.On April 12, Politico reported that the Trump administration will not nominate (or renominate) anyone to the 18-member U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.On April 17, the Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed a rule (eventually published on May 10) seeking to restrict housing assistance for families with mixed-citizenship status. The agency’s own analysis showed that the proposal could lead to 55,000 children becoming temporarily homeless.On April 19, the Department of Health and Human Services published a proposal to reverse an Obama-era rule that required the data collection of the sexual orientation and gender identity of youth in foster care, along with their foster parents, adoptive parents, or legal guardians.On May 2, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a final rule to allow health workers to cite religious or moral objections to deny care to patients, which will substantially harm the health and well-being of many people in America – particularly women and transgender patients.On May 6, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule targeting home care workers – who are mostly women of color – designed to stop them from paying union dues and benefits through payroll deduction.On May 6, the Office of Management and Budget proposed regulatory changes that could result in cuts in federal aid to millions of low-income Americans by changing how inflation is used to calculate the definition of poverty.On May 20, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 1500, the Consumers First Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On May 22, the Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed changing the Obama-era Equal Access Rule to allow homeless shelters to deny access based on a person’s gender identity.On May 24, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a proposed rule to weaken the non-discrimination protections (Section 1557) of the Affordable Care Act. The rule, if implemented, would harm millions of people in America by allowing health care providers to deny care to marginalized communities and worsen already existing health disparities.On June 3, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On June 6, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final rule that delayed the compliance date for the agency’s 2017 payday and car-title lending rule.On June 10, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan announced that immigration hardliner Ken Cuccinelli was the new acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Five months later, the new acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, named Cuccinelli to be the Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. A federal judge and the Government Accountability Office, respectively, said that Cuccinelli’s appointments were illegal.On June 12, Trump asserted executive privilege to block congressional access to documents related to the addition of an untested citizenship question to the 2020 Census.On June 21, it was reported that Trump had directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to conduct a mass roundup of migrant families. The following day, the president announced that the raids were delayed, but has continued to threaten them.On July 1, the Department of Education rescinded the “gainful employment” rule that identified higher education programs that routinely left students with unaffordable debt. The rule had been designed to ensure that students who needed to borrow loans were able to reap the benefit of their investment in education.On July 3, the Department of Housing and Urban Development removed requirements that applicants for homelessness funding maintain anti-discrimination policies and demonstrate efforts to serve LGBT people and their families, which had been included in Notices of Funding Availability for several prior years.On July 8, the State Department created the Commission on Unalienable Rights aimed at providing review of the role of human rights in American foreign policy. Seven of the appointees to commission have disturbing anti-LGBT records.On July 15, the administration moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants – deeming anyone who passes through another country ineligible for asylum at the U.S. southern border.On July 15, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 582, the Raise The Wage Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On July 23, the Trump administration published a notice in the Federal Register that expands expedited removals to a wider range of undocumented immigrants. The move threatens same-day deportation for anyone who cannot immediately show they have been in the United States continuously for two years without a hearing, oversight, review, or appeal. It also threatens to trigger massive racial profiling and roundups for immigrants and citizens in the United States.On July 23, the Trump administration proposed a rule that could cut more than 3 million people from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – or food stamps – after Congress blocked similar efforts in 2018.On July 25, Attorney General William Barr announced that the federal government will reverse a nearly two-decade moratorium to resume the federal death penalty.On July 31, Bloomberg Law reported that the Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to issue a proposed rule to amend the agency’s “disparate impact” regulations that provide anti-discrimination protections to people of color, women, and others. If enacted, millions of people in America would be more vulnerable to housing discrimination – with fewer tools to challenge it. The proposal was officially published in the Federal Register on August 19.On August 7, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided seven food processing plants in Mississippi and arrested 680 undocumented immigrants – representing the largest workplace raid in more than a decade. The raids – part of this administration’s dangerous, anti-immigrant agenda – left some children parentless and locked out of their homes after school.On August 12, the administration announced its final “public charge” rule, which makes it more difficult for immigrants who come to the United States legally to stay as permanent residents if they have used (or are viewed as likely to use) public benefits.On August 13, Bloomberg Law reported that the Department of Justice is urging the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to change its position and urge the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that businesses can discriminate against LGBTQ workers.On August 15, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) unveiled a proposal that would allow government contractors to fire LGBTQ employees, or workers who are pregnant and unmarried, based on the employers’ religious views.On August 16, the Department of Justice filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not prohibit discrimination against transgender people. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions previously reversed an Obama-era DOJ policy which clarified that transgender workers are protected from discrimination under Title VII.On August 16, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sent letters, first reported in the Boston area, stating that the agency will no longer consider most deferrals of deportation for people with a serious medical condition – asking people in extreme medical need to leave the country within 33 days.On August 19, the Department of Justice filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that the Trump administration acted lawfully when it rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in September 2017.On August 21, acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan announced that the administration was moving forward with new rules aimed at ending the decades-old Flores settlement agreement that ensures constitutional protections for children in immigrant detention facilities. Without the protections of Flores, the government can hold immigrant children indefinitely, and in prison-like conditions, with no hope for a timely release and no mandate for appropriate care of traumatized children.On August 23, the Department of Justice filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not prohibit discrimination against gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.On August 23, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Attorney General Barr promoted six judges to the Board of Immigration Appeals, which sets binding policy for deportation cases. All six of the judges have high rates of denying immigrants’ asylum claims, and four of them fill seats that the Trump administration created in 2018.On August 28, the Trump administration announced that some children born to U.S. military members and government employees working overseas wouldn’t automatically be considered U.S. citizens.On August 30, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced final new “borrower defense” regulations that rolled back protections for student borrowers against predatory recruiting and other school misconduct put in place in 2016.On September 3, the Trump administration announced that it would divert $3.6 billion of funding for military construction projects to fund the president’s harmful and wasteful wall along the southern border.On September 11, multiple reports confirmed that the Trump administration would not grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Bahamians impacted by Hurricane Dorian. The denial of protected status follows the Trump administration’s termination of the TPS designation for several other countries.On September 17, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 1423, the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On September 19, the Department of Education proposed removing gender-based harassment – including harassment based on gender identity, gender expression, and nonconformity with gender stereotypes – from the Civil Rights Data Collection’s definition of harassment or bullying on the basis of sex.On September 23, acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan announced that the administration would soon end a federal immigration policy (commonly referred to as “catch and release”) that allows migrant families seeking asylum in the United States to remain in this country while their asylum applications are pending.On September 24, the Department of Labor released its final overtime rule, which raises the salary threshold to an amount far lower than the Obama Labor Department’s previously finalized rule.On September 27, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division filed a statement of interest in defense of a Roman Catholic archbishop’s decision that led to the firing of a gay, married teacher – yet another move by the Trump administration to use religion as a shield against core anti-discrimination principles that protect LGBTQ people.On October 1, the Department of Agriculture unveiled a new proposal to take away some state flexibility in setting benefit levels under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – the administration’s third attempt in the past year to kick people off food stamps.On October 4, Trump signed a proclamation to deny visas to legal immigrants who are unable to prove they will have health care coverage or the ability to pay for it within 30 days of their arrival to the United States.On October 7, the Department of Labor released a proposed tip rule that would eliminate the “80/20 rule,” which says that when a tipped worker is assigned non-tip-generating ‘side work’ that takes up more than 20 percent of their time, the employer can’t take the tip credit and must instead pay the worker the full minimum wage.On October 22, a Department of Justice proposal published in the Federal Register proposed to begin collecting DNA samples from immigrants crossing the border, creating an enormous database of asylum-seekers and other migrants.On October 23, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 4617, the Stopping Harmful Interference in Elections for a Lasting Democracy (SHIELD) Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On October 25, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a new policy to narrow who can qualify for waivers of fees associated with applications for green cards, U.S. citizenship, work permits, and other benefits.On October 25, Attorney General William Barr issued two decisions, made through his certification power, that will limit immigrants’ options to fight deportation.On November 1, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a rule to undo requirements that its grantees ensure that federal taxpayer dollars are not used to fund discrimination.On November 1, the Department of Education issued a final regulation permitting religious colleges and universities to ignore nondiscrimination standards set by accrediting agencies.On November 18, the Social Security Administration published in the Federal Register a proposal to slash Social Security disability benefits – which could cut benefits for up to 2.6 million people with disabilities.On December 3, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On December 10, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) revealed a proposed rule that would prohibit the use of official time by union representatives to assist in federal workplace anti-discrimination claims.On December 11, memos obtained by NPR revealed that Secretary Betsy DeVos overruled career staff in the Department of Education’s Borrower Defense Unit, who recommended to the department’s political leadership that defrauded student borrowers deserve no less than full relief from their student debts (the secretary instead provided only partial or no relief to most such borrowers).On December 12, the Trump administration approved a waiver allowing South Carolina to require most Medicaid recipients to work.On December 18, Attorney General William Barr announced the launch of Operation Relentless Pursuit, which was projected to funnel $71 million to law enforcement in seven cities – Albuquerque, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City, Memphis, and Milwaukee – under the guise of combating violent crime. Operation Relentless Pursuit replicates the most devastating aspects of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which flooded America’s streets with cops and dramatically increased incarceration rates, especially in Black and Brown communities.On December 27, HuffPost reported that the Department of the Interior removed “sexual orientation” from a statement in the agency’s ethics guide regarding workplace discrimination.On December 30, the Department of Labor announced a proposed rule setting out new standards for when the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs could issue predetermination notices for preliminary findings of discrimination. The rule would make it more difficult to identify and remedy potential discrimination in federal contractor and subcontractor workplaces, negatively impacting the right of federal contract workers to be free from unlawful employment discrimination.2020On January 3, the Trump administration filed a brief in June Medical Services v. Gee, urging the Court to allow a Louisiana abortion access law to go into effect. The civil rights community filed briefs urging the Court to strike down the restrictive law, highlighting the law’s impact on Black women.On January 7, the Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a proposal that would gut the agency’s 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule. HUD’s proposal would leave people of color, women, and other protected communities already harmed by unfair and unequal housing policies at a further disadvantage.On January 13, The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration would divert $7.2 billion of funding from the Pentagon to fund the president’s harmful and wasteful wall along the southern border.On January 13 (and subsequently on February 11 for the Senate companion resolution), the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.J. Res 76, a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to overturn Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s borrower defense rule. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports this resolution.On January 13, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 1230, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On January 16, nine federal agencies issued proposed rules eliminating the rights of people receiving help from federal programs to (i) request a referral if they have a concern or problem with a faith-based provider and (ii) receive written notice of their rights. The changes would encourage agencies to claim broader religious exemptions to deny help to certain people while receiving federal funds.On January 23, the Department of State announced a new regulation aimed at denying pregnant people visas to prevent them from traveling to the United States. The regulation represents an attack against pregnant people living in countries without access to the Visa Waiver Program and immigrant women, particularly those of color, and with low incomes.On January 30, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released block grant guidance to allow states to cap Medicaid spending – essentially putting forward the notion that we should ration health care for the most vulnerable people in our nation.On January 31, the Trump administration announced an expansion of its Muslim ban, which will expand restrictions on additional countries including Myanmar (also known as Burma), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania.On February 5, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On February 10, the Trump administration released its Fiscal Year 2021 budget proposal, which included $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the ACA over 10 years, cuts to SNAP by $182 billion over 10 years, cuts assistance for some people with disabilities through Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income, and reduces the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program by $21 billion over 10 years, among other drastic cuts.On February 13, the Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed to amend the Equal Participation of Faith-Based Organizations rule that removes safeguards to prevent discrimination.On February 14, the Trump administration announced the deployment of law enforcement tactical units from the southern border as part of an arrest operation in sanctuary cities across the country. This includes the deployment of members of the elite tactical unit known as BORTAC, which acts as a Border Patrol SWAT team.On February 20, the White House published a memo (dated January 29) signed by Trump that granted Secretary of Defense Mark Esper the authority to ignore the collective bargaining rights of civilian employees working for the Department of Defense.On February 25, the Department of Justice sided with the plaintiff, Students for Fair Admissions, to oppose race-based affirmative action at Harvard University in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the First Circuit Court of Appeals.On February 26, the Department of Homeland Security expanded two pilot programs, the Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP) for Mexican nationals and Prompt Asylum Claim Review (PACR), that fast-track the asylum process for migrants at the U.S. border. The American Civil Liberties Union argues that both programs deny asylum seekers due process since it is nearly impossible for the migrants to access legal help.On February 26, the Department of Justice created a Denaturalization Section in its immigration office to prioritize stripping citizenship rights from naturalized immigrants who commit certain crimes.On February 27, the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in support of a Kentucky wedding photographer who is challenging a city ordinance banning businesses from discriminating against gay customers. The photographer, Chelsey Nelson, refused to photograph same-sex weddings due to her religious beliefs.On February 28, the Department of Justice proposed regulations increasing fees for immigrants and requiring asylum seekers to pay a $50 fee to have their cases heard in court. Fees for permanent residence permits would increase by $990, to a total of $2,750, and the cost for naturalization of new citizens would increase by $445, to $1,170.On March 6, the Department of Justice issued a rule saying that DNA data samples from migrants taken into federal custody after trying to cross the U.S. border can be stored and shared among federal agencies.On March 10, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 2486, the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On March 17, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced a decision to temporarily exempt and waive certain affirmative action requirements connected to federal contracts for coronavirus relief.On March 20, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention imposed a 30-day restriction on all nonessential travel into the United States from Mexico and Canada – an effort, led by Stephen Miller, to use public health laws to reduce immigration.On March 24, Attorney General William Barr signed a statement of interest arguing against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s transgender athlete policy, which allows athletes to compete as the gender with which they identify.On April 20, the Trump administration extended its March 2020 CDC rule on border restrictions until May 20, 2020.On April 22, Trump signed an executive order to temporarily ban the issuance of green cards to people seeking permanent residency in the United States – a move that was viewed as a shameless manipulation of the pandemic to justify the administration’s xenophobic policies.On April 30, the Department of Education issued guidance, flouting congressional intent under the CARES Act, that directs school districts to share millions of dollars designated for low-income students with wealthy private schools.On May 6, the Department of Education released its final rule on Title IX that raises the bar of proof for sexual misconduct, bolsters the rights of those accused, and introduces new protections that include sexual harassment. If the rule takes effect, it will silence sexual assault survivors and limit their educational opportunity.On May 12, the Department of Agriculture appealed an injunction that blocked the agency from proceeding with cuts to the SNAP program (food stamps). The new requirements, if the USDA wins its appeals, would strip 688,000 Americans of their food benefits.On May 12, the Department of Health and Human Services eliminated sexual orientation and gender identity and tribal data collection in the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS, which collects case-level information on all children in foster care and those who have been adopted with title IV-E agency involvement).On May 14, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 6800, the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On May 15, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights sent a letter of impending enforcement action to the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and six school districts declaring that Title IX requires schools to ban transgender students from competing in school sports based on their gender identity and threatening to withhold funding from Connecticut schools if they do not comply.On May 19, the Trump administration announced the indefinite extension of its CDC order that allows federal authorities at the border to immediately return migrants to their home countries.On May 26, the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in an Alabama federal court in support of the state’s onerous absentee ballot requirements that put Black voters and voters with disabilities at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.On May 29, Trump vetoed a bipartisan resolution to overturn a Department of Education rule and hold Secretary DeVos accountable for failing to provide relief to students defrauded by for-profit colleges.On May 29, Trump issued a presidential proclamation aimed at restricting the entry of graduate students and researchers from China.On June 1, police officers and the National Guard dispersed peaceful protesters outside the White House using teargas and flash-bang explosions so that Trump could pose for photos, while holding up a Bible, in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church.On June 3, the Department of Justice filed a brief in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to allow religious-affiliated adoption agencies to refuse child placement into LGBTQ homes. The Justice Department is not a party to the case.On June 12, the Department of Health and Human Services issued its final rule rolling back the non-discrimination protections (Section 1557) of the Affordable Care Act. The rule will promote discrimination in medical care.On June 14, The Washington Post reported that the Department of Housing and Urban Development will propose a rule that would roll back Obama-era guidance requiring single-sex homeless shelters to accept transgender people.On June 15, a 161-page regulation from the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice was published in the Federal Register that would make it exceedingly difficult for migrants to claim asylum in the United States.On June 19, the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest arguing that the Equal Protection Clause permits Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which bars trans girls and women from school sports teams.On June 22, Trump issued a proclamation to expand and extend his April 22 order that suspends some immigration from outside the United States. The new proclamation extends the initial green card ban in the April proclamation until December 31, 2020, and includes additional significant restrictions on several categories of temporary guest worker visas.On June 24, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On June 24, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 7120, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On June 24, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting H.R. 3985, the Just and Unifying Solutions To Invigorate Communities Everywhere (JUSTICE) Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposes.On June 25, the Trump administration filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that the entire Affordable Care Act should be invalidated – saying “the remainder of the ACA should not be allowed to remain in effect.” The brief was filed in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.On July 7, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued its final rule on payday and car-title lending – undoing consumer protections and threatening to devastate communities of color that are already facing the worst fallout of the pandemic.On July 7, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued a notice in the Federal Register proposing changes to the Civil Rights Data Collection, including removal of several questions regarding school and district characteristics, discipline, school finance and data disaggregation.On July 8, the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice issued a proposed rule that would bar asylum seekers from countries with disease outbreaks. The proposal does not say whether it would only apply during a global pandemic, but instead would depend on determinations made by the Attorney General and Homeland Security secretary in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services.On July 14, the Department of Justice filed a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that blocked the work requirements.On July 14, the federal government carried out its first execution in more than 17 years and has since carried out four additional executions during Trump’s presidency.On July 15, the Trump administration finalized a rule proposed by the White House Council on Environmental Quality to change how the federal government implements the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA is the federal law, signed by President Nixon in 1970, that safeguards air, water, and land by requiring environmental assessments of major infrastructure projects. The Trump administration’s rule limits the number of projects that require in-depth environmental review and no longer requires federal agencies to weigh a project’s vulnerability to climate change or impact on global warming.On July 16, the Commission on Unalienable Rights (the formation of which was announced in July 2019 by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo) released a draft report to the public. Experts described the report as undermining decades of human rights progress.On July 21, Trump signed a memorandum attempting to ban undocumented immigrants from counting toward congressional apportionment following the 2020 Census.On July 23, Secretary Carson terminated the Obama-era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, replacing it with a new rule called “Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice.” AFFH aimed to combat segregation in housing policy.On July 28, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf issued a memorandum to drastically curtail the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program while the agency decides whether to rescind the program completely. The memo is in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June 2020 that found the administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it rescinded the program in September 2017.On July 30, NPR reported that the U.S. Census Bureau would be cutting census door-knocking a month short. On August 3, the bureau released a statement confirming that both field data collection and self-response would be ending a month early on September 30.On August 6, Trump appointed J. Christian Adams to serve on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) and was sworn in one week later. Adams, who was a member of the president’s sham voter suppression commission, was appointed to the USCCR on the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.On August 8, Trump signed a series of politically motivated executive actions amid the coronavirus pandemic. One of the memos he signed defers payroll taxes from September through December 2020. Trump also said that, if reelected, he would permanently terminate the payroll tax. In a letter to Senate Democrats on August 24, Stephen Goss, chief actuary of the Social Security Administration, said that such a move would deplete Social Security by mid-2023.On August 18, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) signaled its intent to create burdensome new rules for its conciliation process that could tip the scales in favor of employers and potentially expose workers who file workplace discrimination claims, as well as potential witnesses, to retaliation.On August 19, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) released an updated draft policy on gender and women’s empowerment that eliminated any reference to transgender people or contraceptives.On August 21, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 8015, the Delivering for America Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On August 26, Eric Dreiband, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, sent letters to the governors of Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey, and New York (all Democrats) requesting information under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) about the coronavirus response of public nursing homes in their states. The move, which occurred during the Republican National Convention, was viewed as a political move targeting Democrats to distract from the president’s failed response to the pandemic.On August 26, the Department of Education issued a “Dear Educators and Stakeholders Letter” announcing the withdrawal of eight guidance documents, including in its rationale that previous support the department expressed for diversity was advocating for “policy preferences and positions beyond the requirements of the Constitution and Title VI.”On August 31, the Department of Education issued a notice in the Federal Register that it had rescinded almost 100 guidance documents issued since the 1990s.On September 2, Trump sent a memorandum to the attorney general and the director of the Office of Management and Budget that threatened to pull federal funding from “anarchist jurisdictions” – cities “that are permitting anarchy, violence and destruction.” This was also viewed as a political move targeting cities where people are protesting police brutality and systemic racism.On September 3, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued an opinion letter abandoning its long-standing interpretation of Section 707 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.On September 4, the Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a final rule that severely weakens the disparate impact tool under the Fair Housing Act, which will make millions of people more vulnerable to housing discrimination.On September 4, Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, sent a memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies instructing them to end anti-racist trainings that address white privilege and critical race theory – caalling them “divisive, anti-American propaganda.”On September 8, the Department of Justice filed a brief in support of an Indiana Catholic school that was sued for firing a teacher in a same-sex marriage.On September 8, a whistleblower complaint from a Department of Homeland Security official alleged that top DHS officials, including Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, directed analysts to downplay threats from violent white supremacy and Russian election interference.On September 17, the AP reported that the Department of Education is threatening to withhold some federal funding from Connecticut school districts if they follow a state policy that allows transgender girls to compete as girls in high school sports.On September 22, Trump issued an executive order prohibiting federal agencies, federal contractors, and grantees from engaging in anti-discrimination workplace diversity trainings the Administration deemed “divisive.”On September 22, the Department of Labor proposed a rule that would make it easier for employers to misclassify workers and deny them minimum wage and overtime protections.On September 24, the Department of Housing and Urban Development issued its final rule to gut the disparate impact tool under the Fair Housing Act, which will make it harder to challenge systemic racism by housing providers, financial institutions, and insurance companies that deprive people of the services and opportunities they need.On September 30, the State Department told Congress that it would allow only 15,000 refugees to resettle in the United States in the 2021 fiscal year, which began the following day.On October 1, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 8406, the HEROES Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.On October 6, Microsoft revealed that the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) contacted the company over its commitments to increasing diversity. According to Microsoft, “the OFCCP has focused on whether Microsoft’s commitment to double the number of Black and African American people managers, senior individual contributors and senior leaders in our U.S. workforce by 2025 could constitute unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, which would violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.” The OFCCP contacted Wells Fargo for the same reason.On October 7, the Trump administration filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to halt the 2020 Census count early. The application was filed after the Ninth Circuit upheld a district court’s ruling that the administration could not stop the count at the end of September.On October 8, a Justice Department memo suspended all diversity and inclusion training for the department’s employees and managers in compliance with Trump’s recent executive order banning anti-bias trainings.On October 21, Trump signed an executive order that could expand his ability to hire and fire tens of thousands of federal employees. The order would allow federal agencies to reclassify certain workers, which would strip them of job protections. The national president of the American Federation of Government Employees referred to the order as “the most profound undermining of the civil service in our lifetimes.”On November 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of the Treasury approved Georgia’s waiver request under Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, which allows the state to exit the federal marketplace without creating a state-based marketplace to replace it. This will endanger coverage and access to care for tens of thousands of people.On November 2, Trump signed an executive order establishing the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission to “promote patriotic education.” The commission, teased by Trump in remarks on September 17, was viewed as a political move aimed at censoring the teaching of American history and as an attack on The New York Times’ Pulitzer-Prize winning 1619 Project, which details this nation’s history beginning when the first enslaved Africans were brought to America.On November 9, in a memo to U.S. attorneys, Attorney General William Barr authorized the opening of election fraud investigations “if there are clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual State.” The memo, for which there was no factual basis, was viewed as an attempt to sow chaos and led to the resignation of Richard Pilger, director of the DOJ Criminal Division’s Election Crimes branch.