During the recent government shutdown, some Republicans in Congress have expressed sympathy for the roughly seven hundred and thirty thousand federal employees who have been performing essential ...

The U.S. Education Department is bringing back hundreds of employees in its Office for Civil Rights who were placed on paid administrative leave earlier this year, according to a Dec. 5 email to those ...

The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon the Civil Rights Act – a Jim Crow-era law passed to ...

The Justice Department is cracking down on protesters amid ICE's terror campaign in Minnesota ...

A Trump administration initiative is upending 60 years of efforts by the federal government to prevent discrimination against ...

1st Circuit allows Trump administration to reduce Education Department's civil rights staff Administration cited recent U.S. Supreme Court order in related litigation Judge Myong Joun called Supreme ...

After years of conservative complaints, the Justice Department moved Tuesday to kill a decades-old provision of civil rights law that allows statistical disparities to be used as proof of racial ...

July 29 (UPI) --The Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Duke University amid the Trump administration's crackdown on higher-learning institutions as it seeks to rid ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The federal government says the University of Kentucky violated the Civil Rights Act. The U.S. Department of Education started an investigation in March that coincided with ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear ...

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the country about discrimination and accommodating disabilities has been gutted by ...

(CNN) — The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon the Civil Rights Act – a Jim Crow-era law ...