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Friday was my friend Eric Dreibands last day as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Eric will take the rest of the month off and then return to private practice. Eric accomplished a lot in his two years and two months in charge of the Civil Rights Division. Some of the Divisions accomplishments under Erics leadership are set forth in this DOJ announcement. Eric defended the Trump administrations record on

Troubled by Capitol riot, Cabinet officials DeVos, Chao resign Rachel Elbaum and Dareh Gregorian and Tom Winter © Provided by NBC News Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced their resignations Thursday, citing the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday. "Yesterday, our country experienced a traumatic and entirely avoidable event as supporters of the president stormed the Capitol building following a rally he addressed...

NBA players again display their ignorance NBA players are a poorly educated group. But lack of education can’t explain the stupidity of some player remarks in response to the rioting at the Capitol and to the decision of local prosecutors in the Jacob Blake case. Players for the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat issued a joint statement before the game between these two teams. They said: We play tonight’s game with a heavy heart after yesterday’s decision in Kenosha, and knowing that pr...

Troubled by Capitol riot, Cabinet officials DeVos, Chao resign Rachel Elbaum and Dareh Gregorian and Tom Winter © Provided by NBC News Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced their resignations Thursday, citing the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday. "Yesterday, our country experienced a traumatic and entirely avoidable event as supporters of the president stormed the Capitol building following a rally he addressed...

Image via BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images After a violent mob attacked the U.S Capitol on Jan 6., 2021, resulting in destruction and at least four deaths, the number of people resigning from incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration grew. Many sought to distance themselves from the violent events of that day that appeared to be encouraged by Trump in a speech he made rejecting the results of the November 2020 presidential election. The mob sought unsuc...

Progressive and Democratic lawmakers are slamming the Kenosha County district attorney's decision on Tuesday to not file criminal charges against Rusten Sheskey, a white police officer who shot 29-year-old Black man Jacob Blake in the back seven times while responding to a domestic disturbance call in August.

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks during a drive-in campaign rally with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama at Belle Isle on October 31, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/TNS) Feds side with Michigan religious schools in suit over Covid-19 restrictions DETROIT — The U.S. Department of Justice has sided with religious and private schools in Michigan that brought a lawsuit challenging the state’s latest restri...

District no longer secludes students with disabilities December 31, 2020 GMT INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A southwestern Indiana school district has agreed to stop secluding and restraining students with disabilities, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday. The agreement with the North Gibson School Corp. in Princeton follows the department’s investigation into a complaint that the district inappropriately secluded and restrained students with emotional and behavioral disabilities as young as 5 y...

Iowa care home accused of performing bizarre and dangerous experiments on disabled residents One teenager was restrained 293 times as Glenwood Resource Center overhydrated residents and physically harmed them, the report said 24 December 2020 • 3:04am The Glenwood Resource Center violated residents rights with its use of restraints, the Department of Justice said Credit: AP A care home in Iowa for people with intellectual disabilities subjected residents to "bizarre experiments" and used t...

OCALA, Flordia (WESH) -- The United States Department of Justice on Tuesday released a scathing report alleging that Florida’s largest women’s prison, located in Ocala, has repeatedly failed to protect