He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.

The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.

It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or violence.

Law enforcement expert pushes back against the now-former Biden administration's claim that violent crime was at a 50-year low, says the administration "manipulated" key data points.

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration

Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned work to the attorney general.

California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical records and telling them they don’t have to assist federal agents in arrests. Some Massachusetts hospitals and clinics are posting privacy rights in emergency and waiting rooms in Spanish and other languages.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove said that local laws that don't match Trump's immigration plans threaten national security.

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.

It is being reported that the Trump Administration leaders in the Department of Justice circulated internal memos Wednesday ordering an immediate freeze on all activity related to consent decrees, a court-ordered improvement plan intended to address flawed police practices.

Joe Biden said he would not pardon his son Hunter Biden then he did. Then, he pardoned more family members and others. It's rich to hate on Trump.