From executive orders and agency rulings to federal litigation and negotiations with universities, businesses, and foreign governments, the Trump administration is repeatedly challenging established legal frameworks while implementing sweeping new policies. Race stands at the center of many of these developments, alongside competing visions of fairness, justice, and opportunity.

Today, we’re introducing Challenging Precedent, a new blog from the Stanford Center for Racial Justice that examines this intersection of race, law, and regulation during the Trump era. We aim to carefully analyze and interpret these rapidly evolving developments.

We’re launching the blog with several posts that reflect our approach: one of us (Banks) examines the administration’s wholesale rejection of disparate impact doctrine, while the other (Sutton) looks at President Trump’s executive orders targeting “cashless bail” reforms. Our Bremond Fellows Dayle Chung and Brionna Bolanos cover a federal mandate to remove information from national parks that portrays America in a negative light and a set of K-12 and higher education developments prompted by the administration’s legal and regulatory actions.

We invite you to follow along as we analyze what’s unfolding. Sign up to receive updates and join this important conversation about the future of race, law, and regulation in America.

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Ralph Richard Banks is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law and Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice.

Dan Sutton is the Director of Justice and Safety at the Stanford Center for Racial Justice.