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11 Jun 2012, 3:12 pm by Rick Hasen
TPM: “The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will sue the state of Florida for purging voters from its rolls in violation of federal law, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez said in a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner Monday.” [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 8:44 am by Mike Scarcella
Stephen Elliot of the Civil Division’s federal programs branch said in the guidance, provided Friday to lawyers in pending detainee cases in Washington federal district court, that attorneys for detainees are allowed to cite to WikiLeaks documents. [read post]
23 Feb 2007, 11:49 am
Burck, who served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Staff Secretary, is heading over to the DOJ's Criminal Division. [read post]
2 May 2014, 5:31 pm by Guest Blogger
DoJ); elements within even one division may disagree (e.g., the political leaders of the DoJ Civil Rights Division vs. most of the staff attorneys); advisers to a president may (and do) lead him (or, someday, her) in different directions; lower courts sometimes move in directions the Supreme Court’s majority would not be likely to countenance; and different houses, committees, and personalities in Congress (not to mention different parties)… [read post]
27 May 2009, 1:49 pm
Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and former head of the Civil Rights Division at DOJ, will be the new dean of FIU College of Law. [read post]
14 May 2018, 6:41 am by John Jascob
The group includes leaders and senior officials from the FBI, the Criminal Division, the Civil Division, other litigating divisions involved in significant corporate investigations, and the U.S. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 3:12 pm by Jeralyn
The Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, has issued a report finding the New Orleans police department engaged in misconduct that violated the Constitution and federal laws. [read post]
According to Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division John Demers, a forfeiture order of that amount is “only right. [read post]
12 Oct 2023, 9:14 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
“Lenders should not deny people the opportunity to take out a loan to buy a home, build their businesses or otherwise pursue their financial goals because of unlawful bias and without regard to their actual ability to repay,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. [read post]
6 Feb 2021, 9:10 am by David J. Halberg, Esq.
Recently, the U.S Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division concluded an investigation into the conditions at Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala, Florida, finding reasonable cause of Eighth Amendment violations for failure to protect prisoners from sexual abuse and assault by the staff. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 12:58 pm by Mike Scarcella
David Remes, who leads the human rights law firm Appeal for Justice, is demanding access to and use of WikiLeaks documents. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 9:28 am
According to the WSJ’s Evan Perez, the referral relates to allegations of political meddling in the DOJ’s civil-rights division, and focuses on possible perjury by Bradley Schlozman, who served a year as interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City following the forced resignation of his predecessor, Todd P. [read post]
What the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division uncovered in Ferguson – racially biased policing on steroids, encouraged by a court system whose budget was dependent on the extortion of its city's residents – isn't just a dark look into an isolated small municipality, it's unfortunately an indictment of American policing in general. [read post]
29 Apr 2007, 8:42 am
  He makes much of the silly example given of a lawyer who kept a bust of Madison on his desk, for instance, and very little of the decision to give a cash award to the only attorney on a four-lawyer team in the civil rights division who sided with a Georgia voter-identification law, which was later struck down by the courts. [read post]
12 Jan 2007, 9:23 am
Cutlar, Chief of the Special Litigation Section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, is a world-class diva. [read post]