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effect a month from now. They also called on the Biden administration to overturn it. The groups are confident a legal challenge will prevail due to an earlier court decision that rejected the opinion on which the new rule is based. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni issued a blistering opinion in August that quoted Harper Lee’s famous novel, after deciding in favor of state attorneys general and conservationists who sued the administration. ‘It is not only a sin to killa “In May 2019, a United Nations panel determined that 1 million species face extinction — ‘more than any other period in human history.’ Four months later, top ormithologists in government and academia reported that 3 3 vanished in North America over the past 50 years. ... The American Exploration and Production Council, an off industry lobby group, supported the rule ... Past Fish and each year, and up to 1.1 billion. Oil pits alone ial up to 1 million birds yearly.” how that industry sources kill an average of 769 million birds Trump races to undermine decades-old rules against discrimination. “The Justice Department is seeking to change interpretation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin by recipients of federal funding. Under these rules, actions are considered discriminatory if they have a discriminatory effect, what’s known as a ‘disparate impact,’ on protected groups. Under the new version, only intentional PES es 3 Vy ys xy <, S33 INS seeyet OY Sas lea yy Perris t88 IC ASEL shdhhd £8 SSALTO NS ENG EILER Se discrimination would be prohibited,” Trump administration has been considering » this change for more than two years but waited until its final weeks to try to put it into effect. ... The Justice Department currently distributes about $6 bilhon a year in grants or awards ... The planned change was pushed in late December by William P. Barr, one of his last acts as attorney general. ... Typically regulations of this magnitude are published first as proposals and the government collects public comment before publishing its final version. It would be unusual to publish a final regulation — particularly one of this magnitude — without going through that process, but the document says that its proposal falls under an exception and therefore the aciministration is not required to seek public comment.” FBI(21cv558)-119