The Department of Justice sent a memo to the interim director of the civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing ...
An internal memo directed attorneys to notify leadership of consent decrees that were finalized within the last 90 days.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump spoke with ABC News on Tuesday to offer his thoughts on the move by the Trump administration ...
The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.
The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police ...
The Department of Justice is reportedly halting all litigation from its Civil Rights Division carried over from the Biden ...
Minneapolis is implementing its consent decree, prioritizing community trust and transparency over political expediency.
The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice ...
It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or ...
The previous administration’s Department of Justice and Louisville signed the agreement last month, but it has not yet been ...
The memo doesn’t state how long the freeze will last. However, it widely shuts down the civil rights division for at least ...