Trump's Picks For Solicitor General, Civil Rights Chief Clear Senate Panel
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nominations of D. John Sauer to be U.S. solicitor general, Harmeet ...
Trump Firings Gut Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.
Can protesting in the US be ‘illegal’? Trump’s vague warning raises constitutional questions
The ambiguity of the president’s warning could pave the way for lawsuits. It also could be damaging, critics say, if it has ...
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Civil Rights, Research, and More: What’s Hit Hardest by Massive Ed. Dept. Cuts
An analysis of the Trump administration's cuts to the agency shows its civil rights enforcement and research arms are hit particularly hard.
Former Nye County captain pleads guilty to wire fraud
A former captain with the Nye County Sheriff’s Office pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation and wire fraud.
Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
Among a total of more than 1,300 layoffs announced Tuesday were roughly 240 in the department’s Office for Civil Rights, ...
DOJ weighs plan to slash public corruption unit
The Justice Department (DOJ) is weighing a sizable reduction in a division designed to handle public corruption cases, a move ...
‘Students will suffer harm’: Education Department’s civil rights office gutted by layoffs, closures
The Education Department’s civil rights office has been among the hardest hit by layoffs, with the Trump administration ...
Massive layoffs at the Department of Education erode its civil rights division
This ProPublica story, reported by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards, is being republished with permission. With a mass email sharing what it called “difficult news,” the U.S. Department of ...