FILE - The Department of Justice seal is seen during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File) The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was ...

An executive order signed by President Donald J. Trump last week has put a pause on all pending environmental litigation and halts all ongoing consent decrees, which could potentially affect the City ...

President Donald Trump's 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, ...

In his final hours as U.S. Attorney General last month, Jeff Sessions issued a memo limiting the Justice Department’s power to pursue and enforce federal consent decrees with local police departments.

The U.S. Department of Justice is moving to terminate the Paramount Consent Decrees, which have been in effect since the late 1940s and regulate how certain movie studios distribute films to theaters.

The Trump administration has laid out more than two dozen unilateral actions it wants to take to put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on firmer ground and release them from government conservatorship. But, ...

For decades now, state and local officials nationwide have struggled to make policy while bound within the constraints of old court orders, agreed to by their predecessors. These “consent ...