The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across the South should be eliminated.

Democrats are demanding answers about a shifting work focus, diminished staffing and demands of Trump loyalty within the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, including from the Californian at its helm.

Trump Justice Department officials are overseeing a purge of the department’s civil rights division to repurpose the agency from its official mandate of opposing discrimination and curtailing police abuse to encouraging police repression,