They have hired people to staff them and drawn up new policies and processes for addressing sexual harassment and assault. Students who feel that a school is violating their rights under Title IX can sue the institution. But agencies are not the beginning or end of the struggle and accountability for civil rights. “The source of substantive protection of the civil rights laws are the civil rights statutes themselves and the agency can’t undo that,” he says. Americans should continue fighting for their civil rights, even if the Trump administration won’t.

Source: New York Times February 15, 2017 20:03 UTC