Trump Freezes DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
A recent memo orders the DOJ’s civil rights division to halt a majority of its functions, including a freeze on pursuing new cases, indictments or settlements.
A recent memo orders the DOJ’s civil rights division to halt a majority of its functions, including a freeze on pursuing new cases, indictments or settlements.
A Republican-appointed federal judge granted a request from Democratic attorneys general in Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington to temporarily halt the implementation of President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented parents or parents who have lawful, but temporary residency status.
The lawsuits allege that the creation of DOGE violates the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972.
Democratic officials and pro-voting groups sued to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for future children born in this country to noncitizen parents — starting Feb. 19.
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump rescinded former President Joe Biden’s 2021 executive order promoting voting access and expanding voter registration.
You hear the complaint all the time: When fighting Trump, our side too often brings a knife to a gun fight.
Were it not for Trump’s victory, an investigation found that there was enough evidence to convict him in a trial for his crimes.
If democracy is to survive the next four years, the courts will need to perform each of these functions.
President Joe Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill that would add 63 new federal judges over the next decade, explaining that the bill “fails to resolve key questions” about the allocation of judges and senior status judges.
What Trump did to our elections he is now doing to the other institutions of our democracy.