The lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of ...

Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nominations of D. John Sauer to be U.S. solicitor general, Harmeet ...

WASHINGTON — The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s ...

The Justice Department plans to drop a Biden-era lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by employees of a company that houses ...

The group Parents Defending Education is hoping the Trump Education Department will reverse course on Biden era guidelines ...

The agreement between the EPA and Colorado illustrates how the state has benefited from strong federal oversight even when it ...

Leo Terrell, the Department of Justice lawyer who heads the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, has made multiple ...

Donald Trump’s picks for US solicitor general and other key Justice Department positions were advanced by a Senate panel, ...

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State officials say they’ll fight for environment “with or without the federal government,” but critics are skeptical.

One day after President Donald Trump's inauguration, on January 21, Trump issued Executive Order 14173, titled "Ending Illegal Discrimination ...