The Justice Department unit that ensures compliance with voting rights laws will switch its focus to investigating voter ...

President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office has sparked concerns he is rolling back decades of civil rights protections ...

An executive order signed late last month calls for people to provide documented proof of U.S. citizenship each time they ...

President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with ...

When large bipartisan majorities of Congress enacted and subsequently amended the nation’s major civil rights laws during ...

“If you look at all the laws that the Civil Rights Division enforces, whether it's the Voting Rights Act or the Civil Rights Act, the laws are race neutral," said von Spakovsky, who worked at ...

Republican Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill moving civil rights oversight power from the ... with most Republicans voting for it and Democratic lawmakers voting against it. A proposed amendment ...

The new head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division ... senior trial attorney in the voting rights section under the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W.

including the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Comparing Trump’s effort to purge the country of diversity efforts and deconstruct ...