Opinion: Mic invites contributors and staff members to offer commentary and context about news and timely issues. Tracy Rexroat was hired as an education program specialist for an Arizona Department ...

The Equal Protection Clause is the last section of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; it says that no state can “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

The complaint, submitted to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, challenges two graduate programs titled “Graduate ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. “The remedy for racism never is more racism.” ...

Dozens of other states have embraced some version of an Equal Rights Amendment in their constitutions. New Yorkers will get a chance to vote on whether to expand the class of people protected against ...

My colleague and friend Sherif Girgis has sent me the following thoughts on the Equal Protection Clause and the momentous abortion case on the Supreme Court's docket. The leaked Dobbs draft spends ...

New state election laws have prompted debate about whether they will make it more difficult for people to vote. Missing in that national conversation is consideration of equal protection for an ...

The University of Oregon was named in a civil rights complaint on March 4 regarding four UO scholarships that allegedly discriminate based on race, color, national origin and/or sex. The complaint, ...

The DACA decision primarily involved principles of administrative law. (I discussed those issues here and here). But the case also involved a challenge brought under the Equal Protection Component of ...

An organization involved in litigation with universities across the U.S. has filed a federal complaint against Drake University for allegedly violating Title VI. (Photo courtesy of Drake University) ...

New York resident and lawyer Amanda Reynolds cites Section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code, arguing that her dog Finnegan meets the functional criteria used to define dependents, including financial ...