The Department of Justice sent a memo to the interim director of the civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing ...

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

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump spoke with ABC News on Tuesday to offer his thoughts on the move by the Trump administration ...

An internal memo directed attorneys to notify leadership of consent decrees that were finalized within the last 90 days.

The previous administration’s Department of Justice and Louisville signed the agreement last month, but it has not yet been ...

The order does not say how long the freeze will last, but it essentially shuts down the division for at least the first weeks ...

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

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police ...

The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice ...

It said the new administration “may wish to reconsider” such agreements, raising the prospect that it may abandon two consent ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a memo to its civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation originating from the Biden administration and halting the pursuit of any ...