The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall

AP News ^ | Updated 12:00 PM CDT, May 1, 2025 | COLLIN BINKLEY

[E. Pluribus Unum]

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggested that others dating to the Civil Rights Movement should be reconsidered.

The end of the 1966 legal agreement with Plaquemines Parish schools announced Tuesday shows the Trump administration is “getting America refocused on our bright future,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said.

Inside the Justice Department, officials appointed by President Donald Trump have expressed desire to withdraw from other desegregation orders they see as an unnecessary burden on schools, according to a person familiar with the issue who was granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Dozens of school districts across the South remain under court-enforced agreements dictating steps to work toward integration, decades after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in education. Some see the court orders’ endurance as a sign the government never eradicated segregation, while officials in Louisiana and at some schools see the orders as bygone relics that should be wiped away.

The Justice Department opened a wave of cases in the 1960s, after Congress unleashed the department to go after schools that resisted desegregation. Known as consent decrees, the orders can be lifted when districts prove they have eliminated segregation and its legacy.

The small Louisiana district has a long-running integration case

The Trump administration called the Plaquemines case an example of administrative neglect. The district in the Mississippi River Delta Basin in southeast Louisiana was found to have integrated in 1975, but the case was to stay under the court’s watch for another year. The judge died the same year, and the court record “appears..”

[Jacquerie]

My college roommate in the 70s said the consent decrees and pre-clearances imposed on the South were considered Reconstruction II and highly resented.

Long-dead Jim Crow remains a pleasant democrat memory.

[StormEye]

"The Justice Department opened a wave of cases in the
1960s, after Congress unleashed the department to go after
schools ..."

I would like to see many of those Democrat Party dominated
states under a court ordered national edict
to put their elections under Justice Dept. monitoring and
supervision, particularly those suspected of election fraud
in 2020.

We can start with California, New York,
Illinois, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland,
Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington. That is in
addition to many cities and counties like Chicago, NYC,
Los Angeles, Atlanta, Washington D.C.
Too many to name here.
Minnesota and its big city Minneapolis too.

[SharpRightTurn]

I suspect a lot of white parents these days who cannot afford private schools wish they could pull their kids out of black majority schools where their kids get beat up on a routine basis (and put them into white segregated schools). And not just in the South.