Federal investigators say UC Berkeley's law school used essay prompts and race-based grouping to favor Black applicants over white and Asian candidates in 2024 and 2025, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
A third detainee death in less than a year has pushed New Jersey's attorney general to open a civil rights investigation into Delaney Hall — and the private company that runs it.
A federal judge let Tennessee's new congressional map stand, even as civil rights lawyers warn it strips Memphis's Black voters of a unified voice in Congress just months before the midterms.
The Justice Department just put all 50 states on notice — knowingly leave a noncitizen on the voter rolls, and an election official could be looking at criminal charges.
The Trump administration suffered its first appellate defeat Wednesday as a divided federal appeals court ruled the Justice Department lacks legal authority under the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to compel Michigan to surrender confidential voter registration data.
A federal three-judge panel rejected Alabama's latest Republican-drawn congressional map Tuesday, finding it deliberately dilutes Black voting power ahead of the 2026 midterms — and ordered the state to keep using a court-drawn map instead.
