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DOJ's Record 1,000 Poll-Monitor Plan Meant for the Midterms Just Had Its Miami-Dade Trial Run

DOJ plans a record 1,000 poll monitors for November. Four attorneys watched Miami-Dade's primary Tuesday. What's confirmed, what's disputed.

Latin Times

Trump admin fights to make reparations program illegal because it doesn’t help people who aren’t Black

A Chicago-area suburb made headlines for its first-in-the-nation reparations payments. The Justice Department says it’s racially discriminatory

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Is the Trump Administration Protecting the Minneapolis ICE Shooter? DOJ Officials Resign in Protest

The Trump administration blocked DOJ Civil Rights Division from investigating ICE officer Jonathan Ross, prompting mass resignations as critics accuse federal officials of shielding the shooter.

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Justice Department prosecutors resign amid turmoil over Minnesota ICE shooting investigation

Roughly half a dozen federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned and several supervisors in the criminal section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have announced their departures amid turmoil over the federal investigation into the killing of a woman by by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in…

The Independent UK

Trump is gutting civil rights enforcement — and blocking a key tool against discrimination

Right-wing activist Harmeet Dhillon leads the storied Civil Rights Division while Trump orders federal agencies to stop enforcing laws that ban 'disparate impact'

The Independent UK

Justice Department's Civil Rights Division Sees Mass Exodus Amid Sweeping Policy Overhaul

Over 70% of staff expected to exit the agency. At the heart of the exodus is a fundamental reorientation of the Civil Rights Division's goals.

International Business Times

How Ferguson elevated the profile of the Justice Department's civil rights enforcers

The investigations into Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri 10 years ago catapulted the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division into the spotlight

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Three men have 1994 murder convictions vacated in case investigated by killer police officer

Three men imprisoned since the 1990s for a fatal New Orleans drive-by shooting have been ordered freed

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3 murder verdicts vacated in case investigated by killer cop

Three men imprisoned since the 1990s for a fatal New Orleans drive-by shooting have been ordered freed

The Independent UK

DOJ investigating Kansas City police’s employment practices for racial discrimination

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation of employment practices at the Kansas City Police Department to determine if the force engaged in racial discrimination.

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Justice Dept. sues Indiana town for allegedly rescinding job offer to ‘fully qualified’ man because of his HIV status

A man in Clarksville, Ind. who was “fully qualified to work as a police officer” didn’t get the job because of his HIV status, federal authorities said.

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