Tag Archives: Civil Rights Division

by Kira Lerner, Arizona Mirror The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announced Tuesday that it has sued Arizona over a law signed by the state’s Republican governor in March that requires people registering to vote prove their citizenship to participate in a presidential election or to vote by …

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Mississippi announced Monday that it had closed its investigation into a witness’s alleged recantation of her account of the events leading up to the murder of Emmett Till. The investigation was …

The Justice Department announced on Friday that it is launching a task force to investigate the rise in threats against election officials, according to a memo sent to all federal prosecutors and the FBI. “The Department of Justice has a long history of protecting every American’s right to vote, and …