In recent months, 70% of the Department of Justice's civil rights arm has been dissolved. Attorneys say the changes leave lawsuits as one of the last lines of defense against racial profiling and other discrimination.

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia over the use of race in admissions to its top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

Trump’s “weaponization czar” proposed a new way to go after the president’s foes who cannot be prosecuted due to a lack of evidence.

President Trump and his allies have long made false claims of widespread noncitizen voting. Now, as the GOP pursues new restrictions, experts worry isolated arrests will be used to push the new rules.

The Justice Department retracted findings of constitutional violations in Phoenix and five other jurisdictions. Advocates say the move could further embolden cities and police departments to marginalize homeless people.

Democratic strategist James Carville claimed on MSNBC that race was a major factor in the Department of Justice charging Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J.

The Justice Department also announced plans to reverse lawsuits it had filed seeking police reform against the departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky, where the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, respectively, spurred widespread public outrage.

Brian K. Williams, the former deputy mayor of public safety for Los Angeles, faces a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.