The administration is dismissing cases and unwinding settlements built on "disparate impact," which holds that even neutral policies can lead to biased outcomes.

W ASHINGTON—One night in April, Harmeet Dhillon was making spiced Indian tea she said she needed to power through her 12-hour days running the Justice Department’s civil-rights division.

Both state and federal officials are pursuing murder charges against a man they say killed a state lawmaker and her husband.

For decades, the federal government has used data analysis to ferret out race and sex discrimination, winning court cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing, and across ...

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, ... Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pledged to follow the 169-page federal consent decree, while Louisville had already ...

Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump's nominee for assistant attorney general for Civil Rights, prepares for her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Feb. 26, 2025, in ...

Speaking to reporters on a press call Wednesday, Justice Department Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said DOJ is taking all necessary steps to dismiss "with prejudice" the Louisville and ...

President Donald Trump used a White House meeting Wednesday to forcefully confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with false claims of “genocide” against white South Africans.

Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said the proposed consent decrees would have handed control of local police departments to "unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats," including some ...

"Federal micro-management of local police should be a rare exception, and not the norm," Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the department's Civil Rights Division, told reporters.

Justice Department probes into police departments in Louisville and Minneapolis — known as pattern-or-practice investigations — revealed histories of excessive force, discrimination against ...