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US DOJ halts all ongoing and future civil rights litigation (www.jurist.org)

submitted 5 days ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) ordered its Civil Rights Division to halt all ongoing litigation from former President Joe Biden’s administration and not pursue new cases or settlements, according to multiple internal memos that were obtained by various media outlets on Wednesday.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I wonder how this will turn out. There are many laws on the books where individuals can't file lawsuits, only the government can. But if the government has flat out refused to address the entire swath of issues, that might change standing for the victims. It's one thing to say that people should contact the feds and ask the feds to pursue the issues, but when that's a guaranteed impossibility, I think the conditions on the ground change, legally.