The U.S. Department of Justice will cease defending the independent status of three consumer and worker protection agencies, ...

Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, ...

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

Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned on Monday after the Trump ...

According to an internal memo, the U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights ... the division to not pursue any new cases or agree to settlements. Furthermore, it also states that ...

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

Karen Pita Loor, a clinical professor of law at Boston University, said the investigation against the WPD is an example of ...

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

Additional memos call for ceasing any diversity efforts within the Justice Department and directing its Civil Rights Division to identify opportunities ... Trump rather than for the citizens of the ...

President Donald Trump is downsizing a federal office that he's also using to carry out his policy agenda for schools.

They were among 12 investigations into law enforcement agencies launched by the Civil Rights Division under Attorney General Merrick Garland. The Justice Department announced last month it had ...

"The Executive Orders should be declared unlawful, and the agency Defendants should be enjoined from enforcing or ...