The decision to halt the program could prevent thousands of people detained in immigration detention centers from receiving legal advice.

The Department of Justice sent a memo to the interim director of the civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation and a stop to any new cases.

The Justice Department has had discussions about the future of the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

DELAWARE- Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings recently released a Know Your Rights Immigration guidance. Resident’s Rights  This is Delaware’s Department of Justice’s way of showing their commitment to public safety,

President Donald Trump’s administration is ending the case against his former co-defendants in the classified documents investigation brought by former special counsel Jack Smith.

Walt Nauta, an aide to President Trump, and Carlos de Oliveira, former property manager at Mar-a-Lago, were charged alongside the president in 2023. They all pleaded not guilty.

The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the pair could have faced.

The mass firings are a warning shot aimed at bringing others in the department to heel. Every president at some point during his administration chafes at the independence of the Justice Department. None have moved as swiftly or definitively as President Donald Trump to put the department firmly under his thumb.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.

Fortenberry represented Nebraska until resigning in 2022 following an initial conviction in a jury trial in California. That conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in a ruling that said the case instead should have been filed in Nebraska or Washington, D.C.