In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential areas" from the freeze.

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has left her position amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement drastic reforms to the Justice Department.

William W. Lothrop was named interim Bureau of Prisons director after Colette Peters' resignation, as the president aims to enforce stricter policies on transgender inmates in prisons.

The order reverses Biden’s ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Private immigrant detention never stopped and is expected to grow.

A memo asserts that state and local officials are bound to cooperate and could face criminal prosecution or civil penalties if they fail to comply.

Federal prosecutors are told in no uncertain terms that they will be on the front lines of an administration-wide effort to crack down on illegal immigration and border crime.

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration.

The abrupt action targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team is the latest sign of upheaval inside the Justice Department. It reflects the administration’s determination to purge the government of workers it perceives as disloyal to the president.

The Trump administration has authorized several more federal agencies to arrest and detain undocumented immigrants.

An El Paso man convicted in connection with the 2021 Capitol riot was released from prison after President Donald Trump's signed an executive order.

Birthright citizenship: A federal ... to the United States.” Nor, the government argued in a filing, would their American-born children. After the ruling, a Justice Department spokesman promised ...