Merrick Garland rescinds Trump-era memo curtailing consent decrees

Friday’s action rescinds a 2018 memo issued by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“This memorandum makes it clear that the department will use all appropriate legal authorities to safeguard civil rights and protect the environment, consistent with longstanding departmental practice and informed expertise of the department’s career workforce,” Mr. Garland said in a statement.
Consent decrees, which are court-enforceable agreements requiring departments accused of civil rights violations to shape up, were a tool used by the Obama administration to curtail patterns of police abuse.
The Obama-era Justice Department had reached agreements with departments in Ferguson, Missouri, after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown and in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray.

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