A consent decree in a class-action lawsuit brought by people judged incompetent to stand trial passed the House ...

The fate of Louisville's consent decree is being delayed once again. A federal judge has approved a 30-day extension for the U.S. Department of Justice to submit additional materials. The agency ...

Virginia has made enough progress in improving services for people with developmental disabilities that a federal judge ended a Justice Department consent decree the state has been subject to for ...

Law enforcement officers need to be able to do their jobs and enforce the law without politicians holding them back,' Moreno ...

WASHINGTON, D. C. - U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno wants the U.S. Department of Justice to re-examine consent decrees that it has reached over the years to reform police practices in Cleveland and other ...

The first report on Minneapolis police’s reforms under a state consent decree show the department has new policies but ...

Since then, numerous cities have been forced into signing “consent decrees” that essentially turn over management of their police to outside “monitors” who too often lack a deep and ...

This will "test the elasticity of the constitutional protections," he says. Officials in the Trump Justice Department have ordered a temporary freeze on any ongoing cases being litigated by the ...

MORE: Trump 2nd term live updates: Officials order freeze at DOJ Civil Rights Division Wolfe was separately directed to notify Trump-appointed department leaders of any consent decrees -- ...

Trump last week has put a pause on all pending environmental litigation and halts all ongoing consent decrees, which could potentially affect the City of Jackson's water and sewer systems.

Colombia’s president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela that has been wracked in recent days by a deadly turf war ...