U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is pressed to spare civil rights-era "peacemakers" program from closure
CBSN
Top House Democrats on Wednesday are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to spare a civil rights-era office that has frequently been referred to as the "peacemakers program."
An internal Justice Department memo reviewed by CBS News last month said President Trump's appointees are considering closing the Community Relations Service, which was created as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The mission of the office is to be "America's peacemaker," tasked with "preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, conflicts, and civil disorders, and in restoring racial stability and harmony."
In a letter sent Wednesday to Bondi and the Justice Department, more than two dozen House Democrats wrote, "We strongly urge you to abandon any plans of dissolving the work of the Community Relations Service."
