[Mb-civic] Justice Unit Puts Its Focus on Faith

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Justice Unit Puts Its Focus on Faith 
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A little-known civil rights office has been busily defending religious groups.

By Richard B. Schmitt
Times Staff Writer

March 7 2005

WASHINGTON — One of the main jobs at the Justice Department is enforcing the nation's civil rights laws. So when a nonprofit group was accused of employment discrimination last year in New York, the department moved swiftly to intervene — but not on the side one might expect. 

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