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 ...

Trump is gutting civil rights enforcement — and blocking a key tool against discrimination - Right-wing activist Harmeet ...

(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 ...

Former Justice Department employees recently established an initiative to track the Trump administration’s overhauls to federal civil rights enforcement. Regan Rush, the director and editor-in-chief ...

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 ...

When Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock was advising immigration attorneys, she would tell their clients in detention to look for the hummingbird logo. The hummingbird floated on the tablets of case managers ...

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Data obtained by The New York Times shows that the Education Department resolved 30 percent fewer discrimination complaints in 2025 compared with the previous year. By Michael C. Bender Michael C.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in ...