HR 1439 · in committee · significant
Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2025
- civil rights
What this bill does
- This bill prohibits detaining or imprisoning people based on their race, religion, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.
- It affects all individuals and applies to federal, state, and local detention and imprisonment practices.
- The Department of Justice can designate additional protected characteristics, with no specified implementation timeline or fiscal cost noted.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
- 01
How should Congress balance giving the DOJ flexibility to designate new protected characteristics against the need for clear, legislated definitions of what detention practices are prohibited?
- 02
What enforcement mechanisms would make this prohibition effective across federal, state, and local systems, and who should bear the costs of compliance monitoring?
- 03
Does this bill's scope adequately address historical detention cases like those referenced in its title, or does it primarily prevent future detentions?
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Sponsor · D-CA-39
Mark Takano
Citizen cosponsors
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In Congress
5/ 435
House Reps cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-02-18
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Legislative timeline
2025-02-18 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2025-02-18 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-02-18 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House

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