DOJ Halts All Civil Rights Cases Following Trump’s Directives
Trump “is quickly implementing Project 2025 and is targeting all minorities,” said researcher Allison Chapman.
Trump’s 2nd term threatens civil rights progress
The start of Donald Trump's second presidential term marks a concerning pivot in the nation's ongoing struggle for civil justice and equal opportunity. His
Trump’s new Justice Department leadership orders a freeze on civil rights cases
The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.
Justice Department temporarily freezes civil-rights litigation, police overhauls: reports
The Justice Department froze civil-rights litigation to allow the incoming Trump administration to review the agencies priorities, reports said.
Justice Department issues freeze for civil rights division
The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.
Backlash brews as Trump guts 'conscience' of Justice Department, freezing civil rights cases
Donald Trump’s new DOJ leadership has ordered a pause on any ongoing Civil Rights litigation. Prosecutors have also been ordered against opening any new cases, essentially freezing any action in the division.
Trump hiring freeze hits law students headed to the U.S. Justice Department
The U.S. Department of Justice has rescinded job offers to law students who were set to join the agency this year, a move some legal educators called a "heartbreaking" and "cruel" outcome for soon-to-be attorneys who want to work for the government.
Trump’s Justice Department halts police reform agreements
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 new administration may wish to reconsider settlements and consent decrees negotiated and approved by the prior administration,
Trump challenges birthright citizenship, faces swift legal backlash from states, civil rights groups
After his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would end birthright citizenship. Colorado is ...
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‘Ask Russia’: Trump Refuses to Say if Ukraine War Will End in a Year Despite ’24 Hours’ Vow
One of President Donald Trump’s several broken campaign promises was highlighted by a question Thursday as he spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he refused to say if Russia ...
Civil rights leaders and King family mark MLK Day as a special call to action as Trump takes office
When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so ...
Trump curtails protections around diversity, LGBTQ rights
The United States will recognize only two sexes, male and female, that are unchangeable, President Donald Trump ordered on ...
Federal Workers Ordered to Report on Colleagues Over D.E.I. Crackdown
The warning came one day after the administration ordered that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the government ...
Trump orders reflect his promises to roll back transgender protections and end DEI programs
Trump's first tasks as he takes office include signing executive orders to roll back protections for transgender people and ...
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Biden spends last day of presidency in South Carolina as he reflects on 5 decades in Washington
President Joe Biden is spending the last full day of his presidency in South Carolina — a state that helped propel him to the ...
Trump White House declares a person's gender can't be changed
The United States will recognize only two sexes, male and female, that are unchangeable, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered ...
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Donald Trump Isn’t the First President to Try to Buy Greenland
Incoming President Donald Trump is back on his quixotic plan to buy Greenland for the United States. But that’s not the first time the United States has expressed interest in buying the vast ...
Trump's anti-DEI orders worry some federal workers
Many underrepresented people who built successful government careers credited those laws and their enforcement with expanding the path to prosperity.