Civil Rights and Liberties

• ICE Is a ‘Secret Police’ Americans Didn’t Ask For - Amid national protests, the round table convenes to debate what anti-ICE tactics should look like.
• Andrea Lucas, EEOC Chair, Recasts Workplace Discrimination in Trump’s Image - Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has said she wants to undo years of what she describes as activist excess around labor law.
• Judge Restricts Immigration Agents’ Actions Toward Minnesota Protesters - A federal judge ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity” in the state and not to stop drivers who are not “forcibly obstructing” officers.
• Trump and Vance Are Fanning the Flames. Again. - Renee Good was not a “domestic terrorist.”
• Diane Crump, First Woman to Ride in Kentucky Derby, Dies at 77 - She was the first professional female jockey to compete at a track in the United States where betting was legal, and notched up 228 career victories.
• Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship - The administration asked the justices to uphold an executive order ending birthright citizenship after lower courts ruled it violated the Constitution.
• Mamdani, a Sharp Critic of Police Surveillance, Will Soon Oversee It - Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, has criticized the N.Y.P.D.’s surveillance tactics. He reappointed the police commissioner who helped create a ubiquitous web of monitoring.