Civil Rights Division: Selection of Cases and Reasons Matters Were Closed

摘要

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division (which uses the abbreviation CRT)is the principal federal authority charged with the responsibility of enforcing the nation's civil rights laws. The direction of CRT enforcement efforts has been the subject of several Subcommittee hearings. Furthermore, CRT enforcement actions have been affected by several U.S. Supreme Court decisions rendered in the 1990s that provided new guidelines for the enforcement of certain federal civil rights laws and affirmative action programs. In your CRT-oversight role, you requested that we review several issues that included, among other things, determining CRT's approach for selecting cases to pursue and the reasons that matters were closed. This letter provides information on these two issues for the Employment Litigation, Housing and Civil Enforcement, and Voting sections in CRT.