Jeff Sessions Wants to Scale Back on Civil Rights Lawsuits
Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to have the Department of Justice scale back on lawsuits against police departments…
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How Trump Made ‘Blue Lives Matter’ a Part of U.S. Domestic Policy
And how, in turn, he’s essentially criminalizing protest.
How Jeff Sessions Will Transform the Department of Justice
The new attorney general will have a tremendous amount of power in judging how civil rights laws are interpreted and enforced—a fact that could wipe out the progress made under the Obama administration.
Giving Native Americans the Right to Information
The Department of Justice is expanding a program that gives tribes access to federal crime data. By Kate…
Election Fairness Monitoring Is High — But Undercut by Voting Rights Act Changes
More than 500 monitors from the Department of Justice (DOJ), along with 300 newsrooms, will oversee today’s elections…
The Department of Justice Will End the Use of Private Prisons in America
But it won’t solve our country’s incarceration problem. By Jared Keller (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images) The United States…
A Federal Court Just Delivered a Major Victory for Medical Marijuana
The ruling comes during a big moment in the drug’s road toward legalization.
The Government Might Improve Patchy Police Killing Data
Better data on deadly police encounters may be on its way. The Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed a…
Abusers in the Juvenile Justice System Are Getting Off Scot-Free
Amid significant reforms, federal officials worry that sexual abuse in juvenile justice system remains prevalent and too often unpunished.