Did federal judges in February 2025 grant stays in the DOJ’s civil rights lawsuits against Louisiana’s Department of Public Safety and Corrections and South Carolina’s restrictive mental‐health group‐home system at the states’ request, with support from Trump’s Justice Department?
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True. In February 2025, U.S. District Court judges overseeing the Department of Justice’s Special Litigation Section suits against Louisiana for overdetention and South Carolina for warehousing people...
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True or false: By mid-2025, the Trump administration"s Department of Justice (DOJ) had halted two major civil rights lawsuits—against Louisiana for detaining 141 people beyond their release dates in May 2024 and against South Carolina for warehousing mentally ill individuals in restrictive facilities—dropped racial discrimination cases, abandoned Biden-era police misconduct investigations, and canceled federal oversight of troubled law enforcement agencies.
Easytrue falseWho was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice?
Easymultiple choiceHas the Trump Justice Department abandoned investigations into police misconduct since January 2025 (ProPublica (April 14, 2025))?
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