DOJ lawyers directed to toss out charges against several anti-abortion activists
A top Justice Department official ordered prosecutors on Friday to terminate three pending cases brought by the Biden ...
Trump reinstates Mexico City Policy and enforces Hyde Amendment in pair of executive actions on abortion
Trump, 78, issued a presidential memorandum reinstating the so-called Mexico City Policy, which prevents the federal ...
Cutback of FACE Act suits ordered
President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people ...
Trump Justice Dept. limits enforcement of FACE Act, which protects reproductive health facilities
According to a Justice Department memo, future FACE Act violations will mostly be left to state or local law enforcement.
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Justice Department Freezes Its Civil Rights Division. Here's What That Means ...
The memo doesn’t state how long the freeze will last. However, it widely shuts down the civil rights division for at least ...
Trump’s Justice Department halts police reform agreements
The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice ...
Trump DOJ leaders freeze civil rights litigation, police reform agreements
The Justice Department has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and indicated it could rethink numerous police reform ...
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Trump's Justice Department limits cases over blocked access to abortion clinics
will be permitted only in severe cases and "extraordinary circumstances," according to a memo issued by Chad Mizelle, chief of staff to the attorney general. The 1994 law prohibits the use of ...
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Louisville leaders, community members react to DOJ memo pausing consent decrees
Louisville community members reacted to the memo Thursday, with Breonna Taylor’s aunt, Bianca Austin, saying it did not come as a surprise to her family. Taylor’s death in 2020 propelled calls for ...