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The U.S. Justice Department is reassigning about a dozen senior career attorneys from its civil rights unit, four people ...

A California man angry about abortion and gun rights cases pleaded guilty on Tuesday to attempting to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his Maryland home, the Justice Department said.

Their goal? Expand the definition of “civil rights” beyond legal equality. Introduce “economic justice” and group-based rights instead of individual liberties. Use lawsuits and judicial activism to ...

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A landmark Justice Department office created in the 1960s during the civil rights movement is marked for closure by the Trump administration, raising fears of a loss of generations of work tamping ...

Conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon is US President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, the Republican-controlled US Senate confirmed on Thursday.

The US Justice Department will allow actor Mel Gibson to own guns again, despite his 2011 conviction on a domestic violence charge, the New York Times reports.

The decision to restore Gibson’s rights reportedly stirred significant controversy within the Justice Department. Gibson, pictured in 2016 Getty Images for SiriusXM Elizabeth G. Oyer ...

Mel Gibson will be allowed to own guns again, despite a prior domestic violence conviction against him, thanks to a new ruling by the US Justice Department. The Mad Max actor had his gun rights ...