The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people living in South Carolina group homes.

Melba Pearson is a civil rights and criminal law attorney who has worked as a prosecutor and policy expert, and serves as ...

The settlement, announced on Friday, resolves a nationwide class action focused on algorithmic pricing of rental units and ...

Title: Justice Department’s Bold Move to Dismiss Biden's Police Investigations: A Win for Local Control In a significant shift in federal policy, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division ...

The Justice Department announced Monday it would end a decades-old consent decree, which banned the federal government from ...

A Missouri woman who starred in the HBO documentary series ''Chimp Crazy'' has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison ...

The Minnesota Supreme Court upholds Minneapolis ordinance barring rental bias against Section 8 tenants, rejecting landlords’ ...

Police departments and other law enforcement agencies across the country are working their way back from all the staff ...

The executive order also states it would allow, “in appropriate cases, the reversal of Federal or State judicial precedents and the termination of consent decrees that impede the United States ...