The Trump administration, in a memo, instructed lawyers in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division not to file any new complaints, The Associated Press reported Thursday.
Donald Trump’s Justice Department suspends civil rights lawsuits and police reform consent decrees set up by the Biden administration.
Donald Trump’s administration could also review police reform agreements sparked by the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
One day after the Trump administration injected fresh uncertainty into the fate of Justice Department agreements aimed at reforming local police departments with histories of misconduct and abuse, ...
President Trump’s new civil rights division head issued a memo that puts the implementation of the Minneapolis consent decree in question.
Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.
The Justice Department has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and indicated it could rethink numerous police reform ...
The order does not say how long the freeze will last, but it essentially shuts down the division for at least the first weeks ...
It said the new administration “may wish to reconsider” such agreements, raising the prospect that it may abandon two consent ...
As US President Donald Trump rushes to tighten his grip on the federal government, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has ...
Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman chosen to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer, called leaving the DOJ 'a ...