June 18, 2025:

The Nathaniel R. Jones Foundation today joined more than 80 civil rights and social justice organizations demanding that Congress exercise its oversight responsibility and engage in robust oversight of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, including through investigations and hearings and by all other means at their disposal.

In a letter to congressional leaders, the organizations called out the “shocking perversion of the founding mission of the Civil Rights Division” and comes as the division, now led by the president’s former personal lawyer, has seen the dismissal and reassigning of attorneys and has abandoned its existing civil rights docket.

“In a reversal of historic proportion, the Civil Rights Division is upending civil rights enforcement principles and practices — which have been in place since its inception in 1957 — in favor of promoting a virulent, discriminatory agenda directly traceable to the president that targets the very communities Congress intended to protect by passing civil rights laws,” the letter stated. “This represents a complete distortion of the division’s founding mandate and will do irreparable harm to the cause of civil rights in this country for decades to come.”

Read the full letter HERE