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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
The Department of Justice Task Force that reexamined the FBI’s handling of Martin Luther King Jr.’s surveillance and the investigations of his 1968 assassination concluded that there was no evidence t...
Federal courts applying the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act have required prosecutors to prove the core statutory elements — use or threat of force, physical obstruction, intentional ...
Six senior career prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota — including Joseph H. Thompson, Harry Jacobs, Melinda Williams and Thomas Calhoun‑Lopez — resigned amid a dispute over the Ju...
Resigning federal prosecutors said they stepped down because Justice Department leaders — influenced by the White House — pressured them to shift the Minneapolis probe away from scrutinizing the ICE a...
Olmstead v. L.C. is the 1999 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held unjustified segregation of people with disabilities is discrimination under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and requi...
Institutions normally move complaints through a staged system: intake and initial assessment, immediate safety measures, a prompt impartial investigation that gathers testimony and documentation, and ...