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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Read moreDetailsUS 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 ...
Read moreDetailsWhy was the Department of Justice founded?
The Department of Justice (DOJ) was established in 1870 to uphold and enforce federal law, ensuring ...
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