Here's a (partial) list of civil rights rollbacks from the Trump administration. H/T
@Rhakim These may not affect me, but they will undoubtedly affect thousands of other black folks.
Jan 31: The FCC announces that it will no longer defend caps on phone rates charged to prisoners.
Feb 21: Attorney General Jeff Sessions releases a memo reversing the order reducing the use of private prisons that had been announced by the Obama Administration.
Feb 27: The Justice Department refuses to continue the Obama-era legal argument that a voter ID law in Texas had been passed with intent to discriminate against black and brown voters
Mar 31: AG Sessions lifts all federal consent degrees used to monitor police departments that had been guilty of violations of civil rights
May 2: Trump suggests that he might block a small grant to assist HBCUs as they may violate the ban on funding groups “that allocate benefits on the basis of race, ethnicity, and gender.”
May 10: The White House announces that Kris Kobach will co-chair the "Commission on Election Integrity" to investigate "voter fraud" across the nation. Kobach, once called, "The Most Racist Politician in America", has spent his career curtailing voting privileges across the country.
May 10: Sessions releases a memo instructing federal prosecutors to pursue the charges that carry the longest possible sentence in drug cases and refers to the War on Drugs as a "rousing success"
Jun 12: Sessions urges states to go after marijuana users and even scrap protections for medical marijuana.
Jul 17: Sessions promises to increase asset forfeiture, a practice that even conservative senators and justices have warned may be unconstitutional.
Jul 28: In a speech to law enforcement officers, Trump encourages the roughing up of suspects who are already in custody.
Aug 1: An internal DOJ memo announces that resources in the DOJ's civil rights division were being redirected to fight against Affirmative Action policies in college
Aug 28: Trump rescinds an Obama-era order that had blocked the transfer of military equipment to local police
Sep 15: AG Sessions pulls out of a federal effort to reform police departments after officer-involved shootings
Nov: President Trump removes protections for 50,000 Haitian immigrants who had sought refuge in the USA after a series of disasters in their home country.
Dec 21: Jeff Sessions rescinds a Obama letter to courts that advised them to be careful in imposing overly stiff fees and penalties on poor defendants.
2018
Jan 4: AG Sessions rescinds the Obama-era memo ordering non-interference with marijuana crimes in pot-legal states
Jan 18: The DHS announces that it will block Haitians from receiving agricultural or seasonal visas just days after Trump had referred to Haiti as a "shythole country"
Feb 10: White House reports show that ICE has more than doubled the deportation of African immigrants over the previous year.
Mar 5: HUD removes references to "inclusive" communities "free from discrimination" from its mission statement.
Mar: HUD scales back the enforcement of fair housing laws and shuts down several ongoing investigations. It is revealed that HUD had attempted to block Obama-era laws that would require local governments to produce plans to integrate racially divided neighborhoods.
Mar: Funding shortfalls and policy changes by the Census Bureau lead the NAACP to sue the Trump Administration out of concern that the 2020 census will undercount Black people
Mar 8: It is revealed that the Department of Education hasn't initiated a single civil rights compliance review in relation to racial discrimination during the 13 months that Trump has been in office.
Mar 12: AG Jeff Sessions announces that the DOJ will prioritize funding for more police officers on campus. Black students are far more likely to be arrested by such officers than White students
Mar 12: The Department of Education proposes repealing an Obama-era guidance promoting racial equity in school discipline
May 18: HUD suspends the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule meant to desegregate housing
May 23: Trump's budget proposes eliminating the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which enforces labor and civil rights laws amongst federal contractors
May 24: Trump signs the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, which exempts banks from reporting rules needed to monitor racist lending practices
Jun 8: Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Candace Jackson instructs her staff not to investigate systemic racism unless it is specifically raised by the complainant
Jun 21: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is found to have dropped 1,200+ civil rights investigations initiated under President Obama
Jun 29: Andrew Veprek, a close associate of Stephen Miller who had recently been appointed as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, lauds nationalism and xenophobia and states national leaders have no duty to condemn hate speech or racism, all in the process of gutting a UN anti-racism document.
Jul 2: SecEd DeVos and AG Sessions rescind 7 Obama-era guidelines on affirmative action and issue a statement calling on colleges to end the practice
Aug 22: Trump directs SecState Pompeo "to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers", specifically White farmers.
2019
Jan 4: The WP reported that Trump is rolling back disparate impact regulations, meaning that lenders, insurers, and local governments could now pass regulations that have negative impacts on minorities just so long as there's no proof they did it for openly racist reasons.
Jan 15: In Stokeling v United States, the two Trump-appointed justices joined a 5-4 majority allowing the Trump administration to expand the offenses that count as "violent felonies" under three-strikes laws.
Jun 27: In Rucho v Common Cause, the two Trump-appointed justices joined a 5-4 majority claiming that only state courts can stop racist gerrymandering
