The U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Div. (which uses the abbreviation CRT) is the principal Fed. authority charged with the responsibility of enforcing the nation's civil rights laws. The direction of CRT enforcement efforts has been the subject of several hearings by Congress. Furthermore, CRT enforcement actions have been affected by several U.S. Supreme Court decisions rendered in the 1990s that provided new guidelines for the enforcement of certain Fed. civil rights laws and affirmative action programs. This report reviews several issues that include, among other things, determining CRT's approach for selecting cases to pursue and the reasons that matters were closed.