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US Senate confirms Trump loyalist to lead Justice Department civil rights unit
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, in a 52-45 vote ...
US Justice Department reassigns about a dozen civil rights attorneys amid shakeup, say sources
The U.S. Justice Department is reassigning about a dozen senior career attorneys from its civil rights unit, four people ...
Latest filing in Title IX lawsuit against UK could have national consequences
What UK submitted to the court of appeals and what Title IX experts think this case could mean for the gender discrimination ...
The Justice Department's top civil rights lawyer is enabling injustice
Harmeet Dhillon's brief tenure at the Civil Rights Division has already made clear what cases are no longer worth the Justice ...
Trump upends DOJ's Civil Rights Division, sparking ‘bloodbath' in senior ranks
Memos show the division has abandoned a mission of enforcing laws against discrimination in hiring, housing and voting rights ...
Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Division Pushes Trump’s Culture War Agenda
The head of the division directed its staff to focus on enforcing edicts on transgender women in sports and other issues, ...
Top DOJ Civil Rights Division Supervisors Said to Be Reassigned
Two top career supervisors in the Justice Department’s civil rights division have been temporarily reassigned to other ...
Civil rights groups sue to restore jobs at Homeland Security oversight offices that were gutted
Three advocacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, seeking to restore staff jobs ...
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US Justice Department reassigns about a dozen civil rights attorneys amid shake-up, say sources
WASHINGTON-The US Justice Department is reassigning ... “They are going to eliminate the Civil Rights Division as it was built to exist,” one former department employee familiar with the ...