Harmeet K. Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, announced the decision days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.

Days before the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, the Trump administration said that it would abandon efforts to reduce police violence there and in several other cities.

With just weeks to go until New York City's mayoral primary, one of the leading candidates, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, finds himself under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. He seems to think it might actually help.

This article examines the Trump DOJ’s new corporate crime enforcement policies, their impact on victims’ rights under the Crime Victims Rights Act, and the controversy surrounding the Boeing 737 Max case.

Prosecutors have long spoken only through court filings, to investigate crimes, not people. That’s changing as President Trump demands his administration target enemies, with little evidence of criminality.

Consent decrees have been a federal government tool for reforming police departments around the U.S. What happens if the one governing the Minneapolis Police Department goes away?

President Donald Trump’s political appointees at the department cited antisemitism on campuses as justification for using the law, the False Claims Act, to target universities and other institutions that Trump views as bastions of opposition to his agenda and a ripe populist target to rile up his right-wing base.

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into hiring practices at the city of Chicago in response to comments made by Mayor Brandon Johnson at a church Sunday, praising the number of and naming Black people in top positions in his administration.