{"id":31355,"date":"2025-01-23T18:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/advocates-deeply-worried-as-trumps-justice-department-halts-new-civil-rights-cases\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T18:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:42:18","slug":"advocates-deeply-worried-as-trumps-justice-department-halts-new-civil-rights-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/advocates-deeply-worried-as-trumps-justice-department-halts-new-civil-rights-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates \u2018deeply worried\u2019 as Trump\u2019s justice department halts new civil rights cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call to stop civil rights cases follows order putting staff on federal DEI programs on leave as a prelude to shutting programs down<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/23\/donald-trump-pardons-january-6-us-president-joe-biden-jd-vance-republicans-live-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to halt new cases, further signalling the new administration\u2019s hostility to racial and gender equality since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> return to power.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came amid a blur of frenzied activity across a range of sectors that sent out simultaneous signals of incipient purges and revenge against political opponents, along with a determination to act on radical campaign pledges.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/23\/trump-doj-civil-rights-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call to stop civil rights cases follows order putting staff on federal DEI programs on leave as a prelude to shutting programs down US politics live \u2013 latest updates The Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to halt new cases, further signalling the new administration\u2019s hostility to racial and gender equality since &#8230; <a title=\"Advocates \u2018deeply worried\u2019 as Trump\u2019s justice department halts new civil rights cases\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/advocates-deeply-worried-as-trumps-justice-department-halts-new-civil-rights-cases\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Advocates \u2018deeply worried\u2019 as Trump\u2019s justice department halts new civil rights cases\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}