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

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

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.

Within days of Trump’s inauguration, the Justice Department’s new chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, sent a pair of memos ordering ...

Michael Gates, who was first elected as Surf City's city attorney in 2014, is headed to Washington, D.C. as deputy assistant ...

The U.S. Justice Department has ordered its civil rights division to halt all ongoing ... the department’s new chief of staff. It states that officials are implementing the freeze to be ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to pause any ongoing litigation left over from the administration of former President Joe Biden ...

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