DOJ Limits Civil Rights Unit as Ex-Staff Decry ‘Destruction’

“It is a sad commentary that, on this anniversary of the Civil Rights Division, the Trump administration has chosen to eliminate a regulation that for nearly 60 years has helped root out illegal race and national origin discrimination by recipients of federal funds,” said Christine Stoneman, a Northeastern University law and policy fellow and one of more than 200 former Justice Department Civil Rights Division employees who signed an open letter calling the Trump administration out for undermining the work and mission of the division.