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 ...

Shakeups at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have put more attorneys on the job hunt, recruiters say, with a few DOJ attorneys in this unit finding new law firm gigs lately but ...

WASHINGTON - In a move aimed at reducing “roadblocks” to its immigration crackdown, the Trump administration has fired most employees within the Department of Homeland Security's Office for ...

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 ...

In an expansive executive order, Mr. Trump directed the federal government to curtail the use of “disparate-impact liability,” a core tenet used for decades to enforce the Civil Rights Act of ...

Dozens of career officials working in the department’s storied civil rights division have left in a mass exodus of prosecutors and staff. Trump’s new chief of the storied division, Harmeet ...

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 ...

When large bipartisan majorities of Congress enacted and subsequently amended the nation’s major civil rights laws during both Democratic and Republican presidencies, policymakers were aware of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Equal Protection Project filed complaint with U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights The organization that made the complaint is based in Barrington, Rhode Island Complaint mentions ...

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