The Justice Department’s unit tasked with enforcing federal voting laws is down from roughly 30 attorneys to about a half-dozen,, as most of its career staff has departed in the face of escalating pressure tactics from the Trump administration.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco during a virtual meeting in a lawsuit by unions, nonprofits and municipalities said she was concerned that the State Department is flouting her May 22 order that broadly blocked government-wide mass layoffs.

In 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice, under then-President Joe Biden, entered into a court-ordered agreement with Lakeland Bank to halt redlining in Black and Latino neighborhoods in Newark and compensate for the discriminatory lending practice with $12 million in mortgage subsidies and the establishment of a new branch in the city.

Democrats are now joining calls for Trump appointees to release promised details from the federal investigation into the disgraced financier.

US federal prosecutors have accused two Chinese nationals of smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen that had the potential to be used as an agricultural terrorism weapon into the United States for research.

The Department of Justice is accusing the North Carolina State Board of Elections of violating a 2002 federal law, the Help America Vote Act, by not collecting the required information from voters.

A federal appeals court declined on Wednesday to lift a judge’s ruling that blocked the Trump administration from effectively shutting down the Department of Education.

For the nearly three months before the Justice Department secured an indictment against the man, it had repeatedly flouted a series of court orders to “facilitate” his release from El Salvador.