By repealing President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 executive order (EO) banning racial discrimination in hiring for the federal ...

Attorneys in the department’s Civil Rights Division were ordered not to file any new complaints, amicus briefs or other certain court papers “until further notice,” one of the memos ...

The Justice Department has ordered federal prosecutors to investigate state or local officials who they believe are ...

Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer, called leaving the Justice Department "a ...

Trump wants to ramp up the federal death penalty. Before he left, the former attorney general made that harder ...