The Justice Department will no longer pursue civil rights lawsuits based on “disparate impact theory,” the Trump administration announced Tuesday. The move comes after 50 years of government policy that encouraged lawsuits against “race neutral” policies without showing evidence of actual racial discrimination, the department said. Disparate impact theory is a framework that often assumes discrimination when there are different outcomes for different groups of people, even if there is no explicit discriminatory practice in place. “For decades, the Justice Department has used disparate-impact liability to undermine the constitutional principle that all Americans must be treated equally under the law,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi. “No longer. This Department of Justice is eliminating its regulations that for far too long required recipients of federal funding to make decisions based on race.” The Justice Department issued a rule removing disparate impact from consideration under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI prevents entities that discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, and national origin from receiving federal money or support. “The prior ‘disparate impact’ regulations encouraged people to file lawsuits challenging racially neutral policies, without evidence of intentional discrimination,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Our rejection of this theory will restore true equality under the law by requiring proof of actual discrimination, rather than enforcing race- or sex-based quotas or assumptions.” The change comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April that directed the federal government to stop using disparate impact theory in government policy and regulations. The order defined disparate impact theory as the “presumption” that “unlawful discrimination exists where there are any differences in outcomes in certain circumstances among different races, sexes, or similar groups, even if there is no facially discriminatory policy or practice or discriminatory intent involved, and even if everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.” Trump said that this theory undermines America’s values of meritocracy and a colorblind society while also violating the Constitution. “It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals,” Trump wrote. Last year, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department was blocked from enforcing disparate impact claims against Louisiana.

The Charlotte City Council is being slammed for approving $3.4 million to hire a PR company to clean up the reputation of their public transportation after a string of recent stabbings. The city’s latest action comes after two widely-publicized stabbings, including one that ended fatally on Charlotte’s train system and sparked a national conversation on rising crime and lax prosecution in urban areas of the country. On Tuesday, Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Harris called out the “pro-crime Democrats in Charlotte” for spending the cash on “misleading ads” rather than choosing to “invest in REAL safety to prevent another tragedy like Iryna Zarutska’s brutal murder.” “No amount of marketing will cause us to forget Iryna,” Harris wrote. Local radio host Nick Craig called out local leaders on X Tuesday for using the funds “on ads telling you everything is fine” rather than “fixing safety.” Pro-crime Democrats in Charlotte are doing everything they possibly can EXCEPT FOR ACTUALLY ADDRESSING CRIME. https://t.co/azb5FlLHoQ — Rep. Mark Harris (@RepMarkHarrisNC) December 9, 2025 Honduran illegal immigrant Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia allegedly stabbed a man using a “large fixed-blade knife” on a Charlotte train Friday, according to The Charlotte Observer. Solorzano-Garcia was deported on two separate occasions before the attack and had a lengthy rap sheet for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, destroying evidence, resisting arrest, using a false ID, along with convictions for robbery and illegal re-entry. It came just four months after the unprovoked murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, 23, in Charlotte by a man with at least 14 prior arrests for offenses such as armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Decarlos Brown Jr. served five years for the robbery, but got off on time served, probation, or community service in most of his other cases. He allegedly stabbed Zarutska repeatedly in the neck as she was commuting from her job at a local pizzeria. The Trump administration responded to Charlotte’s crime surge and sanctuary policies by deploying federal immigration agents to carry out what they dubbed “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” which resulted in hundreds of arrests of illegal immigrants.

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An immigration think tank is calling for Congress to consider mandating the use of a citizenship verification for voter registration after the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to make the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements more user-friendly for state and local election offices.   Last week, the DHS settled a case with four states–Florida, Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio—to overhaul the citizenship verification system. The report, which the Center for Immigration Studies published Monday, characterizes the 1993 National Voter Registration Act as “fatally flawed,” claiming that it “not only facilitates vote fraud but also results in legal aliens mistakenly voting and putting themselves at risk.” “Congress should revisit the NVRA’s prohibition against officials ‘mak[ing] any statement … or tak[ing] any action the purpose or effect of which is to discourage … applicant[s] from registering to vote’ to allow for discouraging non-citizens from registering,” CIS Senior Legal Fellow George Fishman writes in the report. “In addition, Congress should encourage, or to the extent possible mandate, states to utilize the SAVE program to verify the citizenship status of voters and applicants to register.” Settlement With States The new settlement requires the federal government to modernize the citizenship verification tools so every state and territory—not just the four litigants—can more easily prevent non-citizens from voting. “This agreement will continue U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ efforts to improve the SAVE program for states to combat voter fraud, protect election integrity, and verify immigration and citizenship status for state benefits and programs,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Signal in a statement.  “The Department of Homeland Security urges all states to adopt SAVE and join us in enforcing the law and safeguarding the voting rights of American citizens,” McLaughlin added.   The DHS committed to making upgrades to SAVE that include free verification services for all state and local governments; allow for verification using full Social Security numbers or use the last four digits of Social Security numbers. The settlement allows for states to do bulk uploads to process verifications more efficiently, which eliminates the need for one-by-one manual entries. The four states entered into an information sharing agreement. The SAVE system was established in 1987 to help state and local governments to verify if someone was legally eligible for social service benefits using the alien identification numbers assigned by the federal government.  “It’s silly that the Left freaks out about data sharing about this. State government agencies interact with federal data all the time,” Logan Churchwell, research director at the Public Interest Legal Foundation,  told The Daily Signal. “They are more afraid of getting ripped off on welfare benefits but not afraid someone would steal votes and elect politicians that would vote on welfare policy.” In March, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14248, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.” The order included a provision making SAVE data accessible for state and local governments using a Social Security number to crosscheck citizenship status—instead of only alien ID numbers—as a means to prevent illegal voting or illegal voter registration.  The system wasn’t easy to use, Churchwell noted. “Election officials would have to look at one name at a time. Trump got rid of the alien ID number requirement, and allowed [them] to run a search with Social Security numbers,” Churchwell said. “Now some states will be able to run just the last four digits of a Social Security number.” The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which represents a coalition of liberal groups, has opposed the reforms. Alejandra Montoya-Boyer, the conference’s vice president for the Center for Civil Rights and Technology, opposes SAVE in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security. “Members of our coalition, including the ACLU and the Brennan Center for Justice, condemned SAVE,” says Montoya-Boyer’s letter to Homeland Security Chief Privacy Officer Roman Jankowski. “They recognized that it could disenfranchise voters by effectively ending online or mail voter registration and by pushing eligible voters off the voting rolls. Subsequently, privacy and civil society advocates filed a lawsuit in opposition to the SAVE system.”  ‘Obama … Showed It Could Be Done’ In 2011, the Obama administration’s Justice Department under then-Attorney General Eric Holder gave pre-clearance to SAVE under the Voting Rights Act.  North Carolina had approached the DHS saying it had noncitizens with driver’s licenses from the state DMV who were registered to vote.  The verification database for voting wasn’t controversial in the past, Churchwell said.  “The Holder DOJ gave pre-clearance to North Carolina to use the SAVE system. North Carolina was the first state to kick in the door,” Churchwell told The Daily Signal. “The Obama administration DOJ and DHS showed it could be done under the Voting Rights Act.”  In November, the Trump administration scored a preliminary court victory when Joe Biden-appointed Judge Sparkle Sooknanan declined to halt the citizenship verification database, and allowed it to remain continue to be accessible for states to cross-check voter registration data. The League of Women Voters was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in September alleging the database information was unreliable and could be used to purge legally eligible voters from the voter rolls. The post SAFEGUARDING THE VOTE: Trump Administration Further Modernizes Citizenship Verification appeared first on The Daily Signal.