Department of Justice freezes all civil rights division cases: report

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a memo to its civilian rights division, ordering a frost to each ongoing litigation originating from the Biden medication and halting the pursuit of immoderate caller cases oregon settlements, according to reports.

The Washington Post archetypal reported that a memo sent to Kathleen Wolfe, the impermanent caput of the part appointed by the Trump administration, instructed her to marque definite attorneys bash not record "any caller complaints, motions to intervene, agree-upon remands, amicus briefs, oregon statements of interest."

As to however agelong the frost volition last, the memo does not say, though it practically ceases the part until President Donald Trump’s information to pb the department, Harmeet Dhillon, is confirmed by the Senate.

The work besides reported the frost was "consistent with the Department’s extremity of ensuring that the Federal Government speaks with 1 dependable successful its presumption of the instrumentality and to guarantee that the President’s appointees oregon designees person the accidental to determine whether to initiate immoderate caller cases."

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The Department of Justice successful Washington, D.C. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

A root acquainted with the memo confirmed its contents to Fox News.

The DOJ had nary remark connected the matter.

Wolfe was besides told successful different memo that the part indispensable archer the main of unit of the DOJ astir immoderate consent decrees finalized by the part implicit the past 90 days.

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President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Earlier this month, a Kentucky justice declined to instantly motion a constabulary betterment consent decree forged by the DOJ and the metropolis of Louisville during a proceeding 1 courtroom subordinate described arsenic a hasty effort by the Biden medication to hamstring incoming President Trump.

But national Judge Benjamin Beaton refused to beryllium a "rubber stamp" for a 240-page betterment program prompted by the 2020 police-involved shooting of Breonna Taylor, according to Oversight Project counsel Kyle Brosnan.

Taylor was killed successful a hail of constabulary gunfire aft Louisville officers sought to service a cause warrant astatine her boyfriend Kenneth Walker’s house. Walker fired a "warning shot" done the doorway and struck Officer Jonathan Mattingly successful the leg.

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A photograph of Breonna Taylor shared astatine the 2022 Defend Black Women March successful Black Lives Matter Plaza successful Washington, D.C.  (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Frontline Action Hub)

A consent decree, Brosnan noted, is antithetic from different ineligible agreements successful that it cannot simply beryllium reversed by statesmanlike bid oregon a alteration of bosom by 1 of the parties involved.

The consent decree alleged a signifier oregon signifier of radical bias successful Louisville policing, including successful postulation stops, intersexual battle probes oregon usage of force.

There are astatine slightest 2 different constabulary betterment consent decrees going done the ineligible process, 1 successful Maryland and 1 successful Minnesota.

On Jan. 6, the DOJ reached an statement with Minneapolis, which inactive requires court approval, to betterment the department’s "unconstitutional and unlawful practices" allegedly antagonistic to the Americans With Disabilities Act and 14th Amendment.

In October 2024, the feds sued the Maryland Department of State Police alleging Civil Rights Act violations.

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"The United States claims MDSP violated Title VII erstwhile it utilized a definite carnal fittingness trial and a definite written trial to prosecute entry-level Troopers due to the fact that the tests disqualified much pistillate and African-American applicants than others and were not occupation related," a tribunal papers states. 

Maryland constabulary quality the allegations.

Fox News Digital’s Charles Creitz contributed to this report.