· Washington, D.C.

Justice Department Ends the China Initiative

resistance

The DOJ ended its 'China Initiative' after years of criticism that the program racially profiled Chinese American and immigrant scientists and chilled US research. (Shares Feb 23 with Rice v. Cayetano.)

Communities
  • Chinese American
Topics
  • science
  • civil rights

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Also on February 23

injustice

Rice v. Cayetano Decided

The Supreme Court (7-2) struck down Hawaii's practice of limiting Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee elections to Native Hawaiian voters, ruling it an unconstitutional racial classification under the Fifteenth Amendment.