Title: Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2019
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2019
This bill modifies the detention authority of the United States.
Specifically, it prohibits detention or imprisonment based solely on an actual or perceived protected characteristic of an individual. A protected characteristic includes each of the following: race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and any additional characteristic that the Department of Justice determines to be a protected characteristic.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1288 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1288

 To ensure due process protections of individuals in the United States 
 against unlawful detention based solely on a protected characteristic.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2019

 Mr. Takano (for himself, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Norton, Ms. Judy Chu of 
California, and Mr. McGovern) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure due process protections of individuals in the United States 
 against unlawful detention based solely on a protected characteristic.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties 
Protection Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST UNLAWFUL DETENTION.

    Section 4001 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Prohibition on Detention Based on Protected 
Characteristics.--
            ``(1) In general.--No individual may be imprisoned or 
        otherwise detained based solely on an actual or perceived 
        protected characteristic of the individual.
            ``(2) Definition.--In this subsection, the term `protected 
        characteristic' includes each of the following:
                    ``(A) Race.
                    ``(B) Ethnicity.
                    ``(C) National origin.
                    ``(D) Religion.
                    ``(E) Sex.
                    ``(F) Gender identity.
                    ``(G) Sexual orientation.
                    ``(H) Disability.
                    ``(I) Any additional characteristic that the 
                Attorney General determines to be a protected 
                characteristic.
            ``(3) Rule of construction.--Nothing in this subsection 
        shall be construed to allow the Attorney General to remove a 
        characteristic described in subparagraphs (A) through (H) of 
        paragraph (2) from the definition of the term `protected 
        characteristic' under this subsection.''.
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