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Civil rights-era government agency in Justice Department to be purged
A memo reviewed by CBS News said Trump appointees are considering closing the Community Relations Service, which was created ...
US Justice Department reassigns about a dozen civil rights attorneys amid shakeup, say sources
The U.S. Justice Department is reassigning about a dozen senior career attorneys from its civil rights unit, four people ...
The Justice Department's top civil rights lawyer is enabling injustice
Harmeet Dhillon's brief tenure at the Civil Rights Division has already made clear what cases are no longer worth the Justice ...
Families with civil rights complaints say Trump's Education Department left them in limbo
Several families are suing the US Education Department for what they call an "attack" on the department's Office for Civil ...
Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Division Pushes Trump’s Culture War Agenda
The head of the division directed its staff to focus on enforcing edicts on transgender women in sports and other issues, ...
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Justice Department issues freeze for civil rights division
The Justice Department has ordered the civil ... as supervisor of the division — to ensure that civil rights attorneys do not file “any new complaints, motions to intervene, agreed-upon ...
US Senate confirms Trump loyalist to lead Justice Department civil rights unit
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, in a 52-45 vote ...
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U.S., civil rights groups sue Iowa to stop enforcement of controversial immigration law
The civil rights organizations add in their complaint that the legislation permits the arrest of immigrants who re-enter the United States with ... head of the Justice Department's Civil Division ...