SENATOR ANWAR OPPOSES TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER ATTACKING CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

Today, State Senator Saud Anwar (D-South Windsor) issued a statement standing alongside his colleagues and condemning an executive order released Wednesday by the Trump administration seeking to weaken the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The order directs for the potential rollback of Title VI and Title VII enforcement, which if implemented would allow for discrimination in federal programs and employment and impact civil rights laws in housing, lending and employment:

“In a country built on the principles and defined by the ideals of equality and freedom, this executive order is chilling not only in its brazen attack on civil rights but its desire to return America to a time when redlining and Jim Crow laws created two classes of Americans. The integrity of an individual is the most defining part of their person, not the color of their skin, the religion they worship or the nation they hail from, and we must continue to fight discrimination in all forms. In a country formed to escape oppression and tyranny, we cannot go back to a past that our ancestors fought to change.”

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Contact: Joe O’Leary | Joe.OLeary@cga.ct.gov | 508-479-4969