Civil rights attorney S. Lee Merritt filed an amicus curiae brief opposing the Alameda County District Attorney's motion to ...

Some Pennsylvania school districts facing civil rights investigations say they haven't heard from federal officials since ...

They have a proper place in disparate-impact cases.

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 ...

The leader of the Department of Justice‘s Civil Rights Division issued a rallying cry this week for conservative lawyers to rethink their roles, not just within government but across the broader legal ...

For nearly a decade, Shaheena Simons led the division that fought for students’ civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. Her tenure encompassed President Donald Trump’s first term, a time when ...

The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off.

Civil rights case resolutions in schools drop sharply under Trump as Education Department staff is slashed and complaints rise. The Trump administration insists it hasn’t wavered in its duty to ...

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The Trump administration is wielding the Justice Department’s power in new and, some say, extreme ways. It could mean a ...

SANTA FE — When it comes to alleged state civil rights violations, what happens in Roswell stays in Chaves County. In a unanimous opinion, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that venue ...

The Trump administration says it hasn’t wavered in its duty to protect the civil rights of America’s children even as it dismantles the Education Department. Yet its own data show the agency has ...