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There is clear, repeated reporting that multiple federal prosecutors and senior Justice Department civil‑rights officials resigned in protest over how the DOJ handled the ICE shooting in Minneapolis ....
No reputable reporting in the assembled sources confirms that Minneapolis Police Department officers resigned "in the last week"; the verifiable wave of departures cited across outlets refers to feder...
No. As of the available reporting, the federal agent involved in the shooting that killed has not been reported as arrested; the incident remains the subject of scrutiny, preservation orders and publi...
Available reporting shows scrutiny of Turning Point USA’s activities — including calls for an IRS review in 2024 over “superspreader” events and multiple news investigations into its finances — but I ...
The officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, 2021 is Michael Byrd, a lieutenant in the United States Capitol Police who later went public and defended his actions; internal and DOJ investigat...
The constitutional question turns on whether Renee Good was deprived of her Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable seizure and excessive force when an ICE agent fired into her vehicle; the videos...
The core cheating allegations against Martin Luther King Jr. center on , chiefly in his 1955 doctoral dissertation, where investigators later found large verbatim passages taken from other scholars an...
Six career prosecutors in Minnesota — including First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph (Joe) Thompson — and multiple supervisors in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division resigned after what sou...
Universities resisting federal subpoenas for data on students’ or staff’s religious affiliations primarily invoke First Amendment protections — arguing compelled disclosure would burden religious free...
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division filed a federal lawsuit seeking Fulton County’s 2020 election materials, alleging county officials failed to comply with a state subpoena and a subsequen...
Federal litigation and probes that followed the Georgia State Election Board’s 2024 findings about Fulton County have centered less on a new criminal case and more on compelled document production and...
Major provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964—especially Title II (public accommodations), Title VI (federally funded programs), and Title VII (employment)—were rapidly tested in court; the Supreme...
In 1973 the U.S. Department of Justice sued Trump Management, Fred Trump and Donald Trump for alleged racially discriminatory rental practices; the matter was resolved by a consent decree that barred ...
are written by and interpreted and enforced through a mix of federal agencies, prosecutors, and ultimately the courts; administrative agencies like the handle civil campaign‑finance enforcement while ...
Federal involvement in the Tina Peters matter centers on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, led publicly in this episode by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, which annou...
The Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Shelby County v. Holder removed the Section 4(b) coverage formula that triggered federal “preclearance,” which meant jurisdictions previously required to get federal...
Federal authorities have initiated an -led criminal investigation into the and say the will be involved as appropriate, even as state and local investigators say they were blocked from the scene and e...
Since 2023 under the current administration has launched an unprecedented campaign to , but courts asked to decide those disputes—mostly federal district courts—have repeatedly pushed back, dismissing...
Federal enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act has historically concentrated on protecting reproductive health clinics, with bringing dozens of cases and seeking injunctio...
The ’s January 2026 search of ’s election hub followed a sequence of civil demands and litigation by the seeking the same 2020 ballots and records, indicating operational coordination in this case bet...