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Five organizations that had grants terminated by the U.S. Justice Department in April are suing the department and Attorney General Pam Bondi, calling the cancellations unconstitutional and asking that the money be reinstated.
The lawsuit argues that the grant terminations did not allow due process to the organizations, lacked sufficient clarity, and that the Office of Justice Programs lacked “constitutional, statutory, and regulatory authority.
John Keller, a former senior U.S. Justice Department lawyer who resigned in February amid a clash over the prosecution of New York City's mayor, has joined law firm Walden Macht Haran & Williams, the firm said on Tuesday.
The Justice Department may move decisions about charging public from headquarters to regional U.S. attorney offices.
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A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate roughly 1,300 Education Department employees after Democrat-led states claimed that their removal violated congressional mandates.
This article examines the Trump DOJ’s new corporate crime enforcement policies, their impact on victims’ rights under the Crime Victims Rights Act, and the controversy surrounding the Boeing 737 Max case.
Consent decrees have been a federal government tool for reforming police departments around the U.S. What happens if the one governing the Minneapolis Police Department goes away?
President Donald Trump’s political appointees at the department cited antisemitism on campuses as justification for using the law, the False Claims Act, to target universities and other institutions that Trump views as bastions of opposition to his agenda and a ripe populist target to rile up his right-wing base.