Changes at DOJ
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Civil rights lawyers leave en masse as Justice Dept. mission shifts
Civil rights division director Harmeet K. Dhillon has redirected her staff to focus on combating antisemitism, anti-Christian bias and what she calls “woke ideology.”
WaPo coverage:
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The Trump administration said it will roll back Biden-era police reform efforts in cities where there has been controversy over high-profile police killings and brutality.
The US justice department said on Wednesday it will be dismissing oversight agreements reached with the police departments in Louisville, Kentucky and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It will also be scrapping investigations into police constitutional violations in six other cities, including Phoenix and Memphis.
The Biden-era justice department reached accountability agreements with both the Louisville and Minneapolis police departments, but they were not formally enacted.
They included measures like enhanced training, accountability, and improved data collection of police activity.
The Trump administration said those findings relied on "flawed methodologies and incomplete data".
The move comes amid a large upheaval of the justice department's civil rights division since Trump's re-election.
Around 70% of the department's lawyers have quit, according to current and former officials who spoke to NPR, over concerns of its changing priorities under the new Trump administration.
