By Nate Raymond

BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to proceed with firing nearly every employee at a 1960s-era agency within the U.S. Department of Justice known as “America’s peacemaker” that is tasked with quelling racial and ethnic tensions in U.S. communities.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston declined at this early stage in the case to issue the temporary restraining order sought by civil rights groups that would bar the Justice Department from terminating 14 of the Community Relations Service’s 15 remaining employees on Friday.

The judge, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, said the 11 plaintiff organizations failed to show they would be irreparably harmed by the job cuts or explain how they would

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