When the soccer player Robbie Rogers and the N.B.A. center Jason Collins recently came out as gay professional athletes, it was hailed by many as a historic time. Barriers had been broken. Attitudes in pro sports locker rooms were being changed.
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June is often a flurry as Americans try to make sense of the year’s Supreme Court decisions. This batch of rulings may be more confusing than most. The justices’ decision on affirmative action was so inconclusive that both supporters and opponents celebrated. Tuesday’s rejection of a portion of the Voting Rights Act struck some as
WASHINGTON — Consider two women living at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., who travel to Maine to get married. When they get back to the base, the military will now recognize their marriage, affording them a variety of benefits that would go to any married couple, like health care and a housing allowance.
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Arizona filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to block the Maricopa County Community College District from offering in-state tuition rates to immigrant students who were brought to the United States illegally as children and who have obtained work permits under the terms of the Obama administration’s deferred-action program.
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WASHINGTON — In an event on Wednesday organized by the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project, noted Stanford University economist Caroline M. Hoxby unveiled a national proposal aimed at encouraging high-achieving, low-income students to apply to and attend selective colleges. The plan, devised by Hoxby and Dr. Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia, is based on
Thousands of the mainly immigrant workers in California never collected claims for back pay and labor law penalties from their employers, a study says.
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The U.S. Supreme Court may have left colleges open to a flurry of legal attacks on their affirmative-action policies by ruling on Monday that lower courts should have given much stricter scrutiny to the race-conscious admissions policy used by the University of Texas at Austin.
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WASHINGTON — Married gay and lesbian couples are entitled to federal benefits, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a major victory for the gay rights movement.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down a key part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act on Wednesday and declared that same-sex couples who are legally married deserve equal rights to the benefits under federal law that go to all other married couples.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for same-sex marriages to resume in California as the justices, in a procedural ruling, turned away the defenders of Proposition 8.
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