Our country faces a reckoning as the pandemic has laid bare many of the disparities and biases that have only been exacerbated during the past year. Hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities have risen dramatically since the start of the pandemic. This moment in our country demands action. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today led a group of 21 State Attorneys General to challenge the Trump administration’s proposed changes to asylum standards. If implemented, these changes would allow the Executive branch to arbitrarily deny asylum claims to immigrants seeking haven from domestic or gang violence. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in Grace v.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today filed a lawsuit with 18 other Attorneys General to stop U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from eliminating critical protection for students considering enrolling in for-profit colleges and vocational schools. The Trump administration is trying to repeal the Gainful Employment Rule, which requires schools to disclose important information about the value of their degrees—like job placement rates and debt-to-income ratios—to would-be borrowers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine is leading a group of 15 state attorneys general in opposing payday lenders’ use of Indian tribes to skirt state laws protecting consumers from exorbitant interest rates and other predatory practices. In an amicus brief filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, AG Racine and his counterparts argue that the burden of proof should be on lenders and others claiming tribal immunity from state laws preventing predatory lending practices.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced today that his office has filed two new actions against landlords who allegedly violated the District’s consumer protection laws by neglecting their properties while collecting rent from tenants who were living in unsafe and unsanitary apartments. Attorney General Racine also announced additional claims in a pending similar suit. The two new lawsuits were filed against the former owners and managers of the Franklin Street Apartments in Ward 5 and the G Street Apartments in Ward 7.

WASHINGTON, D. C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine has filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the District and 17 states in English v. Trump, a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s decision to appoint Mick Mulvaney as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The brief, filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, argues that a lower court erred in allowing Mulvaney to become the agency’s acting director.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine, along with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, today led a coalition of 24 attorneys general in a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to preserve schools’ ability to address cyberbullying and other forms of off-campus bullying that substantially impact students’ education. The brief was filed in Mahanoy Area School District v.