The Department of Justice sent a memo to the interim director of the civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation and a stop to any new cases.

Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other ...

Trump is reversing the Civil Rights Division's positions on major legal issues, including voting rights, abortion rights and DEI initiatives.

It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or ...

The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.

As Adair Boroughs, US attorney for South Carolina prepares to leave office, she looks back on a career that took her from rural Williston, South Carolina to the highest levels of law enforcement.

Attorney General Pam Bondi fired off a series of memos late Wednesday pledging to “root out corruption” among Department of ...

Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider ...

The memo doesn’t state how long the freeze will last. However, it widely shuts down the civil rights division for at least ...

The U.S. Justice Department's new leadership under President Donald Trump ordered cutbacks on Friday on federal prosecutions ...

It is unclear exactly how long the pause will last, though The Washington Post reported the division will halt action for at ...