Civil Rights
Nov. 19, 2016
US civil rights suits and settlements called into question
A conservative scholar is questioning whether a Justice Department's actions on civil rights cases are legitimate.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
As the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates on whom a president may appoint as acting director of an agency and how long that authority is legitimate without Senate confirmation, one group has called into question the enforceability of 18 months' worth of suits and settlements by the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.
The grounds are that its acting head, Vanita Gupta, was never ...
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