NEW ORLEANS — In a move that had been widely anticipated, the United States Department of Justice has filed for the early termination of the 12-year-old consent decree for the New Orleans Police Department.

The DOJ now joins a previous motion by the city in calling for an end to the reform plan, which is only eight months into a two-year sustainment period previously approved by the judge overseeing the case.

The change in position comes three months after the Trump administration removed six Justice Department attorneys who had previously signed off on the two-year off-ramp.

Any premature end to the agreement would first have to go through U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan, who has overseen the consent decree from the beginning.

The motion, filed Thursday as a memorandum, asks for a fa

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