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DOJ Rescinds Trump-Era Policy Denying Grant Money to Sanctuary Cities

Activists participate in an "Abolish ICE" protest against the Trump administration's anti-immigrant policies in New York City's Grand Central Station on August 29, 2019. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

'Damning' New IG Report, Says ACLU, Shows Just How Far Trump Team 'Was Willing to Go to Destroy' Immigrant Families

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

A Honduran child taken from his father after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border together in June 2018. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

"Just when you think the Trump administration can't sink any lower, it does."

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'Just Babies at the Time': ACLU Says It Can't Find Parents of Over 500 Children Separated From Families by Trump

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center for possible separation. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

"We will not stop looking until we have found every one of the families, no...

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'Crimes Against Humanity': Inspector General's Report Reveals Top Trump DOJ Officials Drove Family Separation Policy

Julia Conley, staff writer

" If Trump wins a second term expect more heartless, cruel, barbaric behavior...

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A woman from Honduras holds her child

Federal Lawsuit Naming Top Trump Officials Seeks Damages for 'Horrific' Trauma Imposed on Separated Children and Families

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D.-Ore.)

Leaked Memo Reveals Trump Administration's "Immoral" Plan to "Traumatize" Migrant Children

migrant mom and child

Judge Strikes Down Trump DOJ's "Attempt to Obliterate Asylum Protections" for Victims of Domestic and Gang Violence

Trump Nominates William Barr, a 'Fanatic Who Believes in Dictatorship of Executive Power,' for Attorney General

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker

Absent Senate's Consent, Maryland Argues Trump Appointment of Acting AG Matthew Whitaker Unlawful

Displaying 'Resiliency of Democracy,' Hundreds of Protests in US Cities Small, Medium, and Large Rebuke Trump

Pence, Trump, Sessions

With Final 'Evil' Act, Sessions 'Reminds Everyone Yet Again Why He's Been Worst Attorney General in Modern History'

'This Is Not a Drill': Demonstrations in Over 1,000 US Cities Against Trump's Assault on Democracy, Rule of Law

'Constitutionally Perilous Moment': Nadler Warns Trump White House to Preserve All Documents Related to Sessions' Ouster

'Constitutional Crisis Already Here': With Mueller at Risk and Free Press Attacked, Warnings Trump Era 'Entering Dangerous New Phase'

"Trump just put someone who has openly trashed Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation in charge of it," Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, one of the advocacy groups behind the rapid-response demonstrations, explained in an emergency email Wednesday evening. Protests are planned for 5 PM on Thursday in cities nationwide.

'Red Line Crossed': Protests Declared for Thursday at 5PM After Sessions Fired

Sanders Warns Trump Any Move to Interfere With Mueller Probe Would Be Considered "Impeachable Offense"

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Drug Policy Alliance

President Trump to Nominate William Barr as Attorney General

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

National Civil Rights Group Condemns Former AG Jeff Sessions's Memo Restricting Use of Consent Decrees

Public Citizen

Protest Thursday at the White House Over Trump’s Assault on Mueller Investigation

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Sessions Firing Shows Trump Demands Loyalty, Not Independence, from Attorney General

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

National Civil Rights Group Responds to Resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Credo Action

CREDO released the statement below in response to Donald Trump's firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions

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Christopher Brauchli

The Empathetic Trump

Tim Lau

William Barr Is Out of Step on Criminal Justice Reform

Ryan Cooper

When Obstruction of Justice Is Glaringly Obvious

Sonali Kolhatkar

Have Democrats Forgotten About This Summer's Immigration Debacle?

Robert Weissman

'Tough on Crime' Jeff Sessions Touts Plummeting Corporate Crime Enforcement Like It's an Achievement

Gus Bova

The Trump Administration's Own Numbers Show "Zero Tolerance" Didn't Work

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

Trump’s Racism Coils Around Black Children, South American Immigrants

Laura Flanders

Jeff Sessions Sets Back the Clock

Karen Greenberg

A Children’s Gitmo on the Border: Heartless America’s Latest Nightmare

Josh Bell

How the Justice Department's Seizure of a Reporter's Email Records Subverts the Free Press