My Conversation w/ Coleman Hughes: The Future of Immigration

Linda ChavezImmigration

Dear CEO Supporters, I recently joined Coleman Hughes on his widely popular podcast, “Conversations with Coleman,” for a wide-ranging discussion on an issue that has become increasingly fraught in our national discourse: birthright citizenship and the future of the immigration debate. During the episode, Coleman and I explored how current rhetoric often obscures the historical and legal reality of what it means to be an American. For me, this conversation was a vital opportunity to reflect on my own experiences—including the personal and political challenges I’ve faced—and to re-center the principles that have always guided the Center for Equal Opportunity. Our work at CEO …

Support CEO on #GivingTuesday

Linda ChavezKeeping Up with CEO

Dear friends, Today is Giving Tuesday and this has been the most important year in the more than quarter-century history of the Center for Equal Opportunity. As we continue our work opposing race-based policies by public institutions at all levels, we are asking for your help again. But first let me tell you about some of what we’ve been up to.  As you know, the milestone Supreme Court affirmative action cases SFFA vs Harvard and SFFA vs North Carolina officially made illegal and unconstitutional the use of race in college admissions. This was a signature win for CEO and the most important …

Linda Chavez on the Affirmative Action Ruling: Actually a Win for Minority Students

Linda ChavezEducation

California and Michigan preview the unexpected benefits of doing away with the policy: more students in good state schools, and higher graduation rates. AFTER 45 YEARS OF CONFUSING AND MISGUIDED DECISIONS on affirmative action in higher education, the Supreme Court on Thursday finally made clear that the Constitution forbids universities from giving preferential treatment based on race or ethnicity to some students in the admissions process. At issue were programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina that made race a significant “plus factor” for black and Hispanic applicants, to the disadvantage of both Asians and whites. The …

Support CEO on Giving Tuesday

Linda ChavezKeeping Up with CEO

Dear CEO friends, As you may already know, today is “Giving Tuesday.” The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) is the only organization in America dedicated to fighting against race-based public policy 24/7, and we are enjoying one of our busiest years yet. But before I ask for your continued support, I wanted to share with you just a few highlights of our work this past year. The Center for Equal Opportunity is the nation’s only conservative civil rights organization doing this kind of work. And we are asking for your help again today on “Giving Tuesday.” Our work over the years would …

Support CEO on #GivingTuesday

Linda ChavezUncategorized

Dear CEO friends and allies, As you may already know, today is “Giving Tuesday.” The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) is the only organization in America dedicated to fighting against race-based public policy 24/7, and we are enjoying one of our busiest years yet. But before I ask for your continued support, I wanted to share with you just a few highlights of our most recent work. Critical Race Theory. Once an obscure academic endeavor, CRT has burst into national mainstream consciousness. CEO has joined the fierce resistance to CRT’s tenet of race conscious equity of outcome by debating the …

Threats to Democracy Come From the Left and the Right

Linda ChavezCulture & Society

This article originally appeared on realclearpolitics.com Like many “Never-Trump” conservatives, I see the assault on democratic institutions and norms launched by the former president and his followers as a clear and present danger to our republic. But I also fear that many progressives pose an equal threat, albeit one that will destroy our system more subtly and over time. My worry is that my allies in the former fight are choosing to ignore or downplay the significance of the latter. In so doing, we may win the battles against election nullification now being waged by Republicans in statehouses but lose …

The Real Voting Rights Threat Is Nullification, Not Access

Linda ChavezVoting Rights

This article originally appeared on TheBulwark on July 8, 2021 Voting rights are alive and well in the United States—but that doesn’t mean we don’t have work to do to ensure they remain so. The 2020 election, held in the middle of a catastrophic pandemic, nonetheless saw higher voter participation rates than any election since 1908. Blacks voted in historically high numbers, especially in eight battleground states, though not quite as high as they did in 2008 and 2012 when the first black president was on the ballot. For the first time, a majority of eligible Hispanic voters also voted …

CEO Condemns Racial Preferences in Oregon Covid-19 Vaccine Access

Linda ChavezRacial Preferences

(Falls Church, VA) – The Center for Equal Opportunity denounces a recommendation by the vaccine advisory committee (committee) of the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to allow some residents to skip others in line for the COVID-19 vaccine, based solely on the color of their skin. This preferential treatment based on race would be both unconstitutional and simply odious. On January 14th, the OHA committee recommended prioritizing COVID-19 vaccines for: “Historically underserved communities of color (especially Black/African American/African Immigrant, Hispanic/Latino/a/x and Pacific Islanders) and Indigenous, Tribal and urban based American Indian/Alaska Natives. In short, the people who experience the impacts of …

The Systemic Racism Trap

Linda ChavezCulture & Society, Uncategorized

by Linda Chavez, CEO Chairman Is America a deeply racist society, whose very institutions perpetuate the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow? Unfortunately, to answer “No” — even a qualified “No” — is becoming harder by the day. Since the horrific killing of George Floyd, millions have taken to the streets to protest not just police violence but to insist that systemic racism infects everything, everywhere in the lives of African Americans and others of color. If blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately more likely than whites to be shot by police, live in poverty, have higher unemployment rates, or die …

Center for Equal Opportunity applauds new Title IX regulations

Linda ChavezUncategorized

The Title IX final rules released today by the Department of Education require major and most welcome changes in the procedures used by almost all public and private schools and campuses campuses across the country to investigate and adjudicate alleged sexual assaults and harassment. The current campus reality is a de facto presumption of guilt, which the Obama Administration demanded and most campuses readily adopted, with minimal procedural protections for accused students and guilt-presuming “training” of investigators and adjudicators. Most campuses have given accused students and their advocates no right to cross-examine accusers and other witnesses – despite repeated Supreme …