Donald Trump’s administration might additionally evaluate police reform agreements sparked by the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
President Donald Trump’s new administration has ordered a halt on civil rights litigation, instructing a freeze on all new instances or investigations. Moreover, the Justice Division management indicated a possible evaluate of Biden administration police reform insurance policies.
A memo was despatched by the chief of employees to the lawyer common Wednesday (January 22).
The letter outlined the modifications, instructing leaders within the division’s Civil Rights Division to make sure attorneys don’t file “any new complaints, motions to intervene, agreed-upon remands, amicus briefs, or statements of curiosity,” based on a number of experiences.
A second memo ordered attorneys to tell management about settlements or consent decrees finalized by the Biden administration within the final 90 days.
The administration could rethink current consent decrees, together with these in Louisville and Minneapolis.
These consent decrees, which deal with reform, adopted investigations uncovering police civil rights violations.
Earlier this month, the Minneapolis Metropolis Council accredited an settlement to revamp town’s police coaching and use-of-force insurance policies following the 2020 homicide of George Floyd.
Final month, the Justice Division introduced an analogous settlement with Louisville to reform its police pressure after an investigation triggered by the deadly police capturing of Breonna Taylor in 2020.
The Biden administration finalized these agreements throughout the final 90 days. The decrees nonetheless require judicial approval.
The length of the civil rights litigation freeze is unsure however alerts a troubling shift in civil rights priorities underneath Donald Trump’s administration.
In the meantime civil proper leaders gathered in Washington Wednesday to oppose Trump’s government orders rolling again DEI applications.
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