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21 Feb 2024, 1:00 am
”The settlement agreement requires the implementation of the following reforms:Expanding the Executive Chamber’s Human Resources Department;Creating new policies and procedures for the external reporting, investigation and resolution of complaints involving high-level Executive Chamber employees, including the Governor;Developing and implementing robust training and anti-retaliation programs andCreating mechanisms to assess the reforms’ effectiveness on a systemic basis.In a… [read post]
1 May 2023, 2:00 am
Hate Crimes Prevention Act, and was sentenced on April 20, 2023, to 262 months in federal prison – almost 22 years – without parole.In a statement released by the DOJ, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division observed, “This defendant’s sentence holds him accountable for the violent and callous hate crime perpetrated against a defenseless teenager targeted because of their LGBTQ+… [read post]
22 May 2007, 12:58 am
For one perspective on the DOJ's placement of partisan politics above civil rights enforcement, see Why I Left the Civil Rights Division by Bob Kengle, former Deputy Chief in the Voting Section.When the most recent developments in the unfolding DOJ story are viewed against this backdrop, it becomes clear that there's even more there than meets the eye. [read post]
21 Apr 2014, 1:25 pm by Lebowitz & Mzhen
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division (CRD) has been rather aggressive in enforcing the ADA as interpreted in Olmstead in recent years. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 9:42 am by Irene
Thomas Perez, head of the DOJ’s bloated civil rights division, called it “discrimination with a smile” because victims had no idea they were being victimized and instead were thrilled just to get a home loan and realize the American dream. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 10:24 am by Jess Bravin
The Civil Rights Division chief, Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez, disclosed the investigation in letters to local officials earlier this month. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 7:32 pm
This morning, The New York Times indicted the Bush administration for fundamentally shifting the DOJ's "civil rights mission" away from race (circa Clinton) and towards religion (circa Scopes/monkeys/the like). [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 4:44 pm by A. Brian Albritton
Department of Justice - Joseph “Jody” Hunt, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Division, and Michael Granston, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division – recently addressed the Federal Bar Association’s (FBA) National “Qui Tam” Conference, held on Feb. 27 and 28. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 8:51 am by gstasiewicz
On September 20, Judicial Watch released a draft Vaughn index from the DOJ pursuant to a separate lawsuit indicating that Perrelli and other top political appointees were involved in the decision to dismiss the Black Panther case despite sworn testimony of Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, to the contrary. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 7:21 am by gstasiewicz
FRC seeks documents from the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to determine the purported basis for the decision and the possible influence of homosexual activists on the decision. [read post]
24 Apr 2016, 3:48 am by SHG
In a 37-page letter, the Department of Justice, by Shaheena Simons, [Acting] Chief of the Educational Opportunities Section, Civil Rights Division, and the New Mexico United States Attorney, Damon Martinez, has taken Lhamon’s micromanagement of student relations under wing, and with the prosecutorial fiat of DoJ, threated the University of New Mexico to capitulate by violating the Constitution. [read post]
23 Nov 2010, 7:04 am by David Lat
Sources report that offers have been issued by the following divisions: Antitrust, Civil, Civil Rights, Criminal, Environment and Natural Resources (ENRD), and U.S. [read post]
” Notably, the DOJ/NLRB MOU contemplates referrals between agencies and states that “[f]ollowing a referral from the NLRB, the Antitrust Division will determine whether to open a civil or criminal investigation into the conduct. [read post]
14 Aug 2010, 7:09 am
Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, the ADA prohibits employers from hiring on the basis of stereotypes about an employee's job future performance due to a disability or on the cost involved in providing reasonable accommodations for the disability. [read post]
The DOJ is also challenging a separate provision of the law that allows state officials to deny applications based on errors irrelevant to voting requirements, saying that it violates Civil Rights Act of 1964. [read post]