Category: Sovereignty Rights

An amended version of the Laken Riley Act passed through the Senate Monday night with bipartisan support in a vote of 64 to 35.

The American Alliance for Equal Rights, led by conservative legal activist Edward Blum, alleges that McDonald’s has been unlawfully discriminating against high school students from other ethnic groups through the decades-old scholarship program. “So non-Hispanics — including non-Hispanic students with severe financial need and racial minorities like blacks, Arabs, and Native Americans — are flatly barred based on their ethnic heritage,” reads the lawsuit filed in Nashville, where the International Scholarship and Tuition Services is operating the program. “This kind of discrimination was never lawful.” The suit requests a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction that bars McDonald’s from closing the application window or selecting this year’s winners.

The district’s 17-page document outlined its various commitments, listing its top goal for its workforce as “increas[ing] our teachers of color to 40% by 2025 and achiev[ing] a goal of 45% teachers of color by 2030.”

Private school choice advocates expect that 2025 will be the year that they finally bring the last big red state, Texas, into the fold. The likely victory would, in turn, pose the next big challenge for the controversial movement: Can it win in enemy territory — that is, blue states — too?