The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department has been accused of manipulating federal law enforcement to further ...

Some offices have lost 75% of their attorneys but are still being asked to reassign those who remain to higher priority areas ...

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and ...

The Trump Justice Department found George Washington University in violation of federal civil rights law, citing an indifference to antisemitic harassment.

The investigation, launched by the Civil Rights Division, found the Washington, D.C. university violated Title VI of the ...

The Justice Department announced Monday it would end a decades-old consent decree, which banned the federal government from ...

The Justice Department found George Washington University (GWU) violated federal civil rights law by ignoring antisemitic discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students. The Tuesday announcement ...

The Department of Justice said Tuesday that George Washington University was “deliberately indifferent” toward Jewish ...

Melba Pearson is a civil rights and criminal law attorney who has worked as a prosecutor and policy expert, and serves as ...

On June 11, 2025, Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate issued a memorandum entitled Civil Division Enforcement Priorities (the ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Justice Department office tasked with protecting people’s civil rights has lost 368 employees since President Donald Trump took office, in a mass exodus that has coincided with ...