Justice Department Orders a Halt to Civil Rights Work
It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or violence.
US Justice Department freezes its civil rights litigation
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, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters on Wednesday.
Department of Justice freezes all civil rights division cases: report
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.
Trump’s Justice Department halts police reform agreements
The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found a pattern of misconduct, according to a memo issued Wednesday.
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US Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division
A memo states that officials are implementing the freeze to be “consistent with the Department’s goal of ensuring that the Federal Government speaks with one voice."
Trump's New Justice Department Leadership Orders a Freeze on Civil Rights Cases
The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration
Justice Department leadership orders freeze on civil rights cases which could affect Minneapolis' consent decree
President Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration. That could include a consent decree in Minneapolis.
Trump’s new DOJ leadership orders a freeze on civil rights cases
It said the new administration “may wish to reconsider” such agreements, raising the prospect that it may abandon two consent decrees finalized in the final weeks of the Biden
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The U.S. Department of Justice and an Illinois ... to forward our efforts to reform the failures in policies that led us to this point." ...