RELEASE: New CAP Report Highlights How Accountability Is Vital To Bring Justice After the Family Separation Policy
Date: April 12, 2021
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Washington, D.C. Individual and collective accountability for the family separation policy established by the Trump administration is needed to hold people responsible; restore public faith in government institutions and American ideals; prevent further abuses and degradation of the rule of law; and provide appropriate redress. These are the main conclusions of a report released today by the Center for American Progress.
The infamous family separation policy started in 2017, with a pilot program in El Paso, Texas, implemented by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to systematically separate hundreds of children from their parents at the border. Despite clear issues with that program, officials recklessly pursued separations, traumatizing thousands. To date, hundreds of children take
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Improving the Lives and Rights of LGBTQ People in America
A Road Map for the Biden Administration Getty/Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle
LGBTQ rights supporters gather during a candlelight vigil in West Reading, Pennsylvania, on September 14, 2020.
Adam Peck
Introduction and summary
The Trump administration spent the majority of its four years in office launching a barrage of attacks infringing on the rights of LGBTQ people, promoting discriminatory policies, and creating barriers to access critical government services. These actions reflect the Trump administration’s blatant disregard for the rights, dignity, and well-being of LGBTQ people, their families, and communities. In particular, the damages promulgated by the administration exacerbated existing inequalities and disparities between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people in the realms of health, employment, the justice system and law enforcement interactions, education, housing, and immigration. The real-world consequen
Promoting Accountability: State and Federal Officials Shouldn’t Be Above the Law Getty/Raymond Boyd
Sam Hananel
Introduction and summary
This summer, Black Lives Matter protests opposing police brutality and systemic racism swept the nation. The federal government’s use of federal troops to violently quell these protests illustrated two legal doctrines in pressing need of reform qualified immunity and
Bivens liability. As courts over the years have expanded qualified immunity and narrowed
Bivens liability, these two doctrines now provide state and federal government officials near-total protection against personal liability for unlawful and abusive actions they take when carrying out their duties.