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Trump administration to further dismantle Education Department, move Civil Rights office: ‘Cruelty is the point’

The Trump administration is reportedly taking further steps to achieve its goal of dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, including the extraordinary measure of relocating critical department offices and their work to other federal agencies. The moves would effectively leave the Education Department, first created in 1979, unequipped and obsolete. According to CNN, the White House will soon announce that the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, the Office of Indian Education, the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the […]

November 18, 2025 3

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Department of Justice subpoenas Fani Willis as Trump targets political foes

The U.S. Department of Justice issued a subpoena for records related to Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who criminally charged President Donald Trump, related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss to President Joe Biden. According to NBC News, the DOJ is seeking records of Willis’ travel history; however, it is unclear if she is the target of an inquiry or facing charges. In 2023, the Fulton County prosecutor charged Trump and 18 others, whom she accused […]

September 29, 2025 2

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Education Department funding freeze for summer and after-school programs is harming students and families, critics say

Elected officials and advocates are decrying ongoing cuts and funding freezes at the U.S. Department of Education, which they say are harming students educationally and families economically. Since taking office, President Donald Trump has made dismantling the Education Department a major priority. While he is constitutionally unable to eliminate the federal agency, which is led by Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Trump has sought to handicap the department through mass layoffs and spending cuts, including funding already approved by Congress. Critics […]

July 16, 2025 1

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Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track and go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees. With the three liberal justices in dissent, the court on Monday paused an order from U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston, who issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs and calling into question the broader plan. The layoffs “will likely cripple the department,” Joun wrote. A federal appeals court refused to put […]

July 14, 2025 2

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Justice Department abruptly fires 3 prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 criminal cases, AP sources say

The Justice Department on Friday fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, according to two people familiar with the matter. Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington as well as a line attorney who prosecuted cases stemming from the Capitol attack, the people said. […]

June 28, 2025

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Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to dismantle Education Department

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from carrying out two plans announced in March that sought to work toward Trump’s goal to dismantle the department. It marks a setback to one of the Republican president’s campaign promises. The injunction was requested […]

May 22, 2025 2

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Justice Department moves to cancel police reform settlements reached with Minneapolis and Louisville

The Justice Department moved Wednesday to cancel settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville that called for an overhaul of their police departments following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor that became the catalyst for nationwide racial injustice protests in the summer of 2020. Following a scathing report by the Justice Department in 2023, Minneapolis in January approved a consent decree with the federal government in the final days of the Biden administration to overhaul its training and use-of-force policies under court supervision. The […]

May 21, 2025 6

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NAACP lawsuit says Department of Education is ‘intentionally discriminating’ against Black Americans with anti-DEI orders

The NAACP is challenging the Trump administration in a new federal lawsuit that accuses the U.S. Department of Education of violating the civil rights of Black American students with its broad anti-DEI policies. In the lawsuit, filed in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, joined by the Legal Defense Fund, targets the DOE’s threat to withhold federal funding from school districts if they do not eliminate a range of programs and curriculums designed to foster racial […]

April 16, 2025 1

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Education Department threatens funding for public schools over DEI-but doesn’t clarify what counts as DEI

The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday sent a memo to states receiving Title I funding threatening to withhold federal money from any public schools that do not eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. The move is an escalation by the Trump administration in an effort to force public schools across the country to comply with an executive order—which characterizes DEI as “illegal discrimination”—signed by President Donald Trump. According to USA Today, the Education Department memo does not […]

April 3, 2025 1