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

According to an internal memo, the U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to stop any ongoing ...

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

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

Apart from codifying the rights of children in custody, the legislature should hold hearings this winter where state ...

The Department of Justice is reportedly halting all litigation from its Civil Rights Division carried over from the Biden administration. A memo instructed division supervisor Kathleen Wolfe to ensure ...

The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found a pattern of misconduct, according to a memo issued Wednesday.

The Justice Department has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and indicated it could rethink numerous police reform agreements with local departments that were negotiated under the Biden ...

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

It said the new administration “may wish to reconsider” such agreements, raising the prospect that it may abandon two consent decrees finalized in the final weeks of the Biden ...