A new report finds key federal agencies have stopped providing oversight of civil rights laws nationally.
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Sweeping changes to staffing and policies in the Trump administration have “gutted” crucial monitoring and enforcement of civil rights laws in the US, according to new findings from Human Rights Watch.
“The federal government plays a unique and irreplaceable role in enforcing anti-discrimination laws,” Human Rights Watch said in its report released on Thursday. “In some cases, federal law is more comprehensive than state laws, and in some cases, Congress gave federal agencies sole jurisdiction to bring these legal actions.”
