Members of the Kennedy family asked to join the legal battle against Trump’s planned “triumphal” arch, arguing it would cast a shadow on their relatives’ graves at the cemetery.
\n\nAttorney General Todd Blanche tonight announced the appointment of Craig Trainor to take over as the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, replacing Harmeet Dhillon, who was the first senior administration official to resign last week after the GOP's midterm election losses.
\n\nTrainor has served as the assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity at the Department of Housing and Urban Development since October 2025, where he oversaw HUD civil rights enforcement actions nationwide, Blanche wrote on X.
\n\nBefore that, Trainor worked in the Education Department's civil rights office and was counsel to the House Judiciary Committee under the leadership of Rep. Jim Jordan., R-Ohio, who was elected yesterday as the GOP House leader for the new Congress.
\n\n“Craig was also the principal architect of the Education Department’s civil rights enforcement policies, which cut the Biden-era fair housing case backlog in half," Blanche wrote. "I thank Craig for taking on this critical role and for his dedicated service to the American people and President Trump.”
\n\nTrainor, who…
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