BARNES SUES THE D.C. BOARD OF ELECTIONS TO HALT RANK CHOICE VOTING INITIATIVE NUMBER 83

DISCRIMINATION AGAIN HAS RISEN ITS UGLY HEAD – THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW – THE FIRST IN A THREE PART SERIES BY ATTORNEY JOHNNY BARNES

Recent amendments to the D.C. Human Rights Act of 1977 (the D.C. Human Rights Enhancement Amendment Act of 2022), specifically overturn the “severe and pervasive” standard of review that D.C. Courts have traditionally adopted from Title V11 case precedent. The Act further provides that conduct may constitute illegal harassment regardless of the following: it was a single incident; it was directed towards someone else; the complainant submitted to or participated in the conduct; the complainant was able to do their job despite the conduct; the conduct did not cause tangible physical or psychological injury; the conduct occurred outside the workplace; or the conduct was not overtly directed at a particular protected characteristic.…  

JUSTICE FOR THE BRENTWOOD COMMUNITY

THIS MAY BE THE BIGGEST ISSUE IN OUR NEXT LOCAL ELECTIONS!

An excellent study by Sarah Shoenfeld for the D.C. Policy Center reveals that when Brentwood, in Northeast Washington, was all White, during the 1930s, the Government protected that Community, even as restrictive covenants. “Mapping Segregation,” according to Ms. Shoenfeld, kept Blacks out.

After Mapping Segregation was declared unconstitutional by a federal court in 1948, Blacks moved in; but so did multitudinous, toxic, Industrial Facilities.…