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The highest ranking Indian American at the U.S. Attorney General's office will leave office in February, reports the Times of India. Vanita Gupta became the first Indian American to hold the number three position since being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2021. She has been a strong advocate...

Photo via Wikimedia Commons The Senate narrowly confirmed Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general Wednesday in a 51-49 vote, CNN reports. Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski broke ranks and voted to confirm Democratic President Joe Biden's pick. Gupta received heavy criticism from the GOP in the weeks leading up to her...

Justice Department Photo A conservative group today launched a $1 million ad campaign to squelch the nomination of Vanita Gupta to the number three position of the Justice Department. This on the same day Republican senators grilled the Indian American nominee about her position on defunding police and decriminalizing drugs, reported...

Sources familiar with the presidential nominating process say Biden will nominate former civil rights attorney Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General, NPR reports. The New York Times says Gupta would oversee a division of the department that argues on behalf of the federal government in court. She would also...

By Ed Diokno   One of the hallmark's of President Obama's administration has been the rebirth of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.   Under the leadership of Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, the division has been the tip of the spear in its aggressive defense of civil...

By Randall Yip, Executive Editor Issues of identity, coalition building and solidarity dominated the opening day of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) Heritage Month Summit, being held Thursday and Friday in New York City. High profile speakers such as actor Darren Criss, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and former U.S. Associate Attorney...

By Randall Yip, AsAmNews Executive Editor Washington DC- Vice President Kamala Harris shared about her Indian American heritage Wednesday at George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium. Her appearance capped a day long forum on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander produced by the White House Initiative on AANHPI where messages...

By Akemi Tamanaha, AsAmNews Associate Editor On Tuesday morning, the Biden administration announced the first-ever National Strategy to Advance Equity, Justice, and Opportunity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) Communities. The strategy was developed through The White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians,...

By Sunita Sohrabji, Ethnic Media Services Several major law enforcement regions, including Los Angeles County, New York, Miami, and Chicago did not submit data for the FBI’s 2021 Uniform Crime Reports, which likely led to a dramatic under-count of hate crimes. Law enforcement agencies are currently not mandated to report data...

Photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons By Akemi Tamanaha, AsAmNews Associate Editor President Joe Biden completed his first 100 days on Thursday. For many Asian Americans, the first 100 days have repaired some of the damage done by the previous administration, but there is still much that could be done...

Via Twitter President Joe Biden pulled the nomination late Tuesday of Neera Tanden to direct the Office of Management and Budget. CNN reports that Tanden herself requested she be pulled from consideration after it became clear to her that "there is no path forward to gain confirmation." "I have the utmost respect...

Justice Department photo Five state Attorney Generals Monday called on President Joe Biden to withdrawal the nomination of Vanita Gupta to the number 3 position at the Justice Department, reports the Washington Times. This is the second Indian American nominee to come under fire. Biden's choice to be his budget...

By Pilar Marrero, Ethnic Media Services with additional reporting by AsAmNews Asian American and other civil rights groups condemned a White House decision to abruptly make today the last to fill out the census. Civil rights group says the fight isn't over and vowed to go to court to battle the...

Asian American Pacific Islander groups warned if the Senate confirms the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court, hard fought rights could be jeopardized. Asian American Advancing Justice, the umbrella group for five AAPI organizations, says Barrett has "a track record of harmful decisions affecting the Asian...

By Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may not have had a direction connection to the Asian American community, but her passing touched many AAPIs nonethless. "Advancing Justice - AAJC mourns the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg," said John Yang, Executive...

AsAmNews Photo: Rep John Lewis appeared at the convention of the Asian American Journalists Association in Atlanta this past August By Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent Asian Americans reacted with both sadness and admiration to the death of John Lewis, a civil rights icon who made fighting for immigrants...

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will not be terminated, keeping at least 16,000 Asian Americans safe to continue their lives in America for now. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the termination of DACA as “arbitrary and capricious” in a 5-4 decision today. DACA was created by the Obama...

Rep. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) took Facebook executives to task over misleading 2020 Census advertisements on its site. In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg on March 5, Harris criticized the company for its "failure to enforce policies banning misinformation." Facebook had run "thousands" of...

Views from the Edge Just in time for Thanksgiving, Mindy Kaling prepared some masala dosas with the help of Sen. Kamala Harris in a video that is warming the hearts of immigrants. In a video released by Democratic presidential candidate Harris' campaign, the candidate...

A federal district judge ruled this afternoon against a lawsuit accusing Harvard of discriminating against Asian Americans in race conscious admissions, reports NPR. Judge Allison D. Burroughs wrote that "Harvard's admission program passes constitutional muster," and that "ensuring diversity at Harvard relies, in part, on race...