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...
US Department of Justice to reassigns about a dozen civil rights attorneys
The U.S. Justice Department is reassigning about a dozen senior career attorneys from its civil rights...
DOJ dismisses pay discrimination lawsuit against Mississippi Senate
The Department of Justice voluntarily dismissed its civil lawsuit against the Mississippi State Senate over allegations...
DOJ ends environmental justice agreement regarding Alabama county’s wastewater and sewage disparities
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it is ending a settlement agreement regarding wastewater problems in...
DOJ reverses stance on Louisiana redistricting case before the Supreme Court, no longer backs new Black voter district
Four days after Trump's swearing-in this January, the Justice Department told the Supreme Court that the federal government's...
DOJ drops lawsuit against Houston County’s at-large voting system
The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump has dropped a lawsuit against Houston County, which argued the county's...
Justice Department instructed to dismiss legal challenge to Georgia election law
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday instructed the Justice Department to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a sweeping election...
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