CEI Calls for Acting Attorney General to Recognize that Commission on Civil Rights Lacks Legal Authority to Operate

December 13, 2018

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today formally requested the acting Attorney General to find that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) has no legal authority from Congress to carry on its activities. In a letter filed with the acting AG, CEI pointed out that the Commission’s authorization from Congress had expired more than 22 years ago, in October 1996. Since that time, Congress has never reauthorized the Commission. While Congress has continued to appropriate funding for the Commission, Supreme Court precedent makes it clear that appropriation bills do not change the underlying substantive law that created the agency without a clear statement to the contrary.

CEI also called on the acting AG to notify the U.S. Treasury that its disbursement of funding to the Commission was illegal............To Read More....