The Department of Justice sent a memo to the interim director of the civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing ...

The Department of Justice is reportedly halting all litigation from its Civil Rights Division carried over from the Biden ...

The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in ...

An internal memo directed attorneys to notify leadership of consent decrees that were finalized within the last 90 days.

The memo doesn’t state how long the freeze will last. However, it widely shuts down the civil rights division for at least ...

It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or ...

The Justice Department has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and indicated it could rethink numerous police reform ...

The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice ...

Trump “is quickly implementing Project 2025 and is targeting all minorities,” said researcher Allison Chapman.

Donald Trump’s Justice Department suspends civil rights lawsuits and police reform consent decrees set up by the Biden administration.

It said the new administration “may wish to reconsider” such agreements, raising the prospect that it may abandon two consent ...