COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former Franklin County deputy pleaded guilty in federal on Friday to depriving an inmate of his civil rights. According to Acting United States Attorney Kelly Norris for the ...

Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. By Erica L. Green Erica L. Green covers the White House and reported from Washington.

A federal judge said that she had concerns about being “hoodwinked” by plans put forward in her courtroom Monday by a Trump appointee to rebuild three offices focused on civil rights oversight ...

Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, says this law would impact more than just the clergy. It’s why the law now faces a federal investigation.

The leader of the Department of Justice‘s Civil Rights Division issued a rallying cry this week for conservative lawyers to rethink their roles, not just within government but across the broader ...

The federal watchdog that Minnesota schools once feared is now a skeleton of itself. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), housed within the United States Department of Education, has been cut in ...

Jeff Day at the Star Tribune reports: “The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into ... issued an endangered missing person alert for 33-year-old Desire Williams.” ...

WASHINGTON ‒ In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has eliminated diversity initiatives across federal agencies, pushed to roll back provisions of ...

The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights focus of the past 60 plus years. Addressing or even acknowledging racial ...

Then the U.S. Department of Education in March suddenly closed the California regional outpost of its Office for Civil Rights and fired all its employees there. That investigation and others went ...

President Donald Trump put his trust in Harmeet Dhillon to enforce his culture agenda, a mission that involves lurching the Department of Justice’s historic civil rights office in a new ...

The division was established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights movement. The Justice Department's division tasked with enforcing the nation's federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass ...