Free speech in higher education is under threat because a culture of censorship that caters to student outrage is spreading in favor of open engagement on unpopular or even discredited ideologies on campus, academics and Department of Justice Officials said at a forum held Monday.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday ruled the Trump administration exceeded its authority when it withheld a 2017 public safety grant from Los Angeles over its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Read moreAttorney General Jeff Sessions told a class of newly-minted immigration judges on Monday that they have an obligation to decide cases efficiently in a system besieged by ballooning dockets and lengthy backlogs.
Read moreA federal judge signaled Wednesday that he will likely block the Trump administration from cutting off grant funds to San Francisco and California for refusing to help detain and deport undocumented immigrants.
Read morePresident Donald Trump escalated his long-running feud with Attorney General Jeff Sessions Friday, calling on him to probe a litany of recurring complaints against those investigating his administration and Democrats.
Read moreWASHINGTON (CN) – Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday promised he would not allow the Justice Department to be “improperly
Read morePresident Donald Trump, newly incensed by campaign allegations, plunged back into his criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, claiming in an interview that Sessions “never took control of the Justice Department” after Trump put him there. Sessions quickly hit back, declaring that he and his department “will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.”
Read moreU.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told judges and lawyers Friday at an Eighth Circuit conference in Iowa that courts should get out of the way and let the executive branch do its job.
Read moreOrdered by a federal judge to “turn that plane around,” attorneys for the U.S. government confirmed Friday that they have returned to Texas a mother and child whom they deported the day before to El Salvador.
Read moreU.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions filed an appeal Wednesday of a federal judge’s permanent injunction against the Trump administration’s effort to block so-called sanctuary cities from getting law enforcement grant funds.
Read moreAmerican culture has become “less hospitable to people of faith,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday in vowing that the Justice Department would protect people’s religious freedom and convictions.
Read moreThe Trump administration’s efforts to punish cities for refusing to cooperate with its immigration crackdown faced a setback Friday when a federal judge reaffirmed a ruling that it cannot block cities from getting law enforcement grant funds.
Read moreThe city of Los Angeles wants a federal court to block the Justice Department from imposing conditions on law enforcement grants, arguing in court papers Thursday that the city is being cut off from funding for refusing to help enforce federal immigration laws.
Read moreDelivering another key victory for California, a federal judge on Monday dismissed the heart of the Trump administration’s lawsuit against three 2017 state immigration laws.
Read moreIn the clash between the Trump administration and California over immigration laws, a federal judge on Thursday upheld a signature piece of California’s policy requiring law enforcement to limit cooperation with federal immigration agents.
Read moreAttorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday afternoon that Bradley Weinsheimer, a 27-year Justice Department veteran, will replace departing Associate Deputy Attorney General Scott Schools.
Read moreIn what Attorney General Jeff Session called the biggest health care fraud enforcement action in U.S. history, the Justice Department said Thursday that it charged 601 people in dozens of cases involving opioid prescriptions.
Read morePolice arrested priests, reverends, rabbis and other members of the faith community outside a California courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday over a show of civil disobedience against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Read moreThe top U.S. border official said Monday that immigrant families crossing the border would not be referred for prosecution until the Justice Department comes up with a way to do so without separating children from their parents – just hours after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions insisted the prosecutions would continue unabated.
Read moreSoldiers raped Stephanie because her husband, a pastor called Alain, preached to men in their Congo town about the need for education. Her ordeal ended when she was granted asylum by the United States. But for another group of women wanting to emigrate here, victims of domestic violence, that route of escape was closed by the Trump administration this week.
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