Judge deals blow to the Trump Justice Department’s use of the Civil Rights Act to 'clean' voter rolls

The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost ...
The New Yorker

When the Government Stops Defending Civil Rights

During the recent government shutdown, some Republicans in Congress have expressed sympathy for the roughly seven hundred and thirty thousand federal employees who have been performing essential ...
Government Executive

Education Department civil rights staff returning to work to tackle complaint backlog

The U.S. Education Department is bringing back hundreds of employees in its Office for Civil Rights who were placed on paid administrative leave earlier this year, according to a Dec. 5 email to those ...
UPI

Education Department launches civil rights investigation into Duke

July 29 (UPI) --The Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Duke University amid the Trump administration's crackdown on higher-learning institutions as it seeks to rid ...
Reuters

Ex-employees of US Justice Department blast 'destruction' of civil rights unit

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - More than 200 former employees of the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday criticized what they called the ongoing "destruction" of its Civil Rights Division, saying ...
Government Executive

After shedding most employees, DOJ looks to shift around Civil Rights staff to fill ‘deep need’

The Justice Department is soliciting staff within its Civil Rights Division to take reassignments to fill vacancies in areas related to education, employment and voting, with leaders citing the “deep ...
CNN

‘It’s a black hole’: Civil rights office at Department of Education veers from original mission

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the country about discrimination and accommodating disabilities has been gutted by ...
NPR

How the Education Department is using civil rights laws to bring schools to heel

In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a "Black Students Success Plan," after a ...
Reuters

US Justice Department plans gun rights office within civil rights unit

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear ...
NPR

Civil rights jobs have been cut. Those ex-workers warn of ICE detention violations

When Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock was advising immigration attorneys, she would tell their clients in detention to look for the hummingbird logo. The hummingbird floated on the tablets of case managers ...
The New York Times

No Education Department? No Problem, Trump’s Education Secretary Says.

The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to enforce special education and civil rights laws. By Sarah Mervosh and Michael ...