Its role in civil rights and disabilities act enforcement involves investigating ... from a simple majority in the House. Due to the filibuster in the Senate, such legislation needs 60 votes ...

America’s climactic battle for civil rights took place in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago. The March in Selma focused on voting ...

The Senate failed to advance a bill to codify a Trump executive order and prevent biological males from playing in girls sports.

Shuttering the agency is unlikely as it would require congressional approval and some Democratic votes to break the Senate ...

In a recent turn of events, a Republican-led Senate bill aimed at preventing boys from participating in girls’ sports encountered a roadblock when it failed to surpass the legislative filibuster on ...

Roughly half of the Education Department's staff was recently let go, amid President Donald Trump's stated plan to outright ...

Yet the football player, invited by Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights ... signed the Act roughly two weeks after it passed in the U.S. Senate following a 72-day filibuster by opponents ...

A Republican-led Senate bill to prevent boys from participating in girls' sports failed to overcome the legislative filibuster on ... of our Nation’s civil rights laws. Congress’s affirmative ...

Readers react to D.C. budget cuts and to the University of Virginia dissolving its office of diversity, equity and inclusion.

President Donald Trump has drafted an executive order calling for the U.S. Department of Education to be shut down, The Wall ...