The Trump DOJ, through Civil Rights Division head Harmeet Dhillon, sent a letter to Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon demanding voter registration records within 15 days. The DOJ is specifically targeting Minnesota’s same-day registration and “vouching” system, where voters …
The Department of Justice announced on December 12, 2025 that it had sued four additional states—Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Nevada—demanding complete, unredacted voter registration lists including driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers, bringing the total number …
The Department of Justice issued a final rule eliminating disparate impact liability from Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ending five decades of civil rights protections that allowed enforcement against policies producing racially discriminatory outcomes without proof of discriminatory …
Trump’s Justice Department leadership ordered a complete freeze on all Civil Rights Division litigation and enforcement activities through internal memos sent by Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle to acting division head Kathleen Wolfe. The memos prohibited attorneys from filing “any new …