Proposed legislation to reform policing practices, accountability standards, and use-of-force rules.

Created a USDA lending framework to help producers and landowners resolve heirs' property title problems that often prevent access to federal agricultural programs and make Black-owned family land vulnerable to partition sales and loss.

Proposed legislation to restore and modernize Voting Rights Act preclearance protections after Shelby County v. Holder.

Would have restored and modernized key Voting Rights Act preclearance and anti-discrimination protections weakened by Shelby County v. Holder and subsequent voting-rights litigation.

Would have prohibited discrimination based on hair texture or hairstyles commonly associated with race across employment, housing, public accommodations, and federally assisted programs.

Expanded eligibility for VA healthcare and disability benefits related to toxic exposures, including burn pits, Agent Orange-related conditions, and other service-connected harms.

Would establish a federal commission to study slavery, subsequent racial discrimination, and the continuing effects of those systems, and to recommend remedies including reparative measures.

Would have addressed USDA discrimination against Black farmers through debt relief, land-retention and land-grant support, civil-rights reforms, and equity-focused agricultural investment.

The Supreme Court held that the race-conscious admissions programs challenged at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated constitutional and statutory equal-protection rules, sharply restricting affirmative action in higher education.