From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

Over the last year, the Trump administration has dramatically changed the kinds of civil rights cases it pursues.

Gone is the focus of fighting race-based discrimination,

the very purpose for which the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department was founded,

and instead, the department's focusing on things like transgender women in sports and anti-Christian bias.

And it's going one step further, abandoning cases already in progress.

Today, we want to tell you about one of those cases.

And to do that, we're doing something a little different.

We're bringing our colleague Sarah Koenig from serial productions

to tell you the story of one woman whose civil rights case was turned upside down by these changes that we've all

been seeing. It's Friday, March 13th, and here is Sarah. A while back I got a hold of this list.

It was a rundown of all these civil rights cases

that were not going to happen. They'd all been dropped or set aside by the Department of Justice.

And I saw one I'd never heard of. A small case, straightforward, one simple issue, easy to get your head around.

That's the one I want to tell you about.

It's the story of a woman named Christy Metcalf.

She's the subject of the lawsuit.

Once I talked to her, I understood this small case and how it was squandered

is as clear a window as any

into how civil rights enforcement is operating right now.

Christy Metcalf is a lawyer.

The job she does is not the flashy kind of lawyering.

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