DOJ retracts Biden-era police accountability investigations and proposed consent decrees
The named jurisdictions include Louisiana State Police, along with the police departments in Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis,...
DOJ charges New Jersey Congresswoman with assault; US Attorney drops trespassing charges against Newark mayor
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced criminal charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver, a Democratic...
DOJ Civil Rights Division opens discrimination investigation into Chicago city hiring practices
The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has launched a formal investigation into the City...
DOJ shakeup raises fears over fate of Jackson State civil rights probe
A sweeping reorganization inside the U.S. Department of Justice has sparked fears that a long-standing investigation...
US Attorney General pressed to spare civil rights-era “peacemakers” program from closure
A group of more than two dozen House Democrats has formally urged Attorney General Pam Bondi...
DOJ investigates Hennepin County’s race-based plea policy
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights inquiry into Hennepin County’s new plea-bargaining...
DOJ ends decades-old desegregation order in Louisiana school district
The U.S. Department of Justice has formally ended a 1966 desegregation order for the Plaquemines Parish...
Trump executive order directs DOJ to coordinate free legal representation for police officers accused of misconduct
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the U.S. Justice Department to coordinate free...
Trump’s justice department appointees remove leadership of voting rights unit
The changes are part of a larger wave of about a dozen reassignments of senior personnel in the...
US cancels hundreds of grants for police, funding for state-run hate-crime reporting, Department of Justice documents show
The U.S. Justice Department has canceled hundreds of ongoing grants that funded everything from mental healthcare...
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