The ability to sue that the court curtailed today is enshrined in a Reconstruction era law, the Civil Rights Act of 1871. One provision, referred to by its location in the US Code as Section 1983 ...

Trump’s early agenda dismantles Civil Rights Act, advances Project 2025, activists say President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office has sparked concerns he is rolling back decades of civil ...

It was codified into British law through the Equality Act of 2010—though similar ideas of indirect discrimination existed in the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 and the Race Relations Act of 1976.