A new criminal investigation into Andrew Cuomo will fuel concerns that President Donald Trump is living up to his promise to use the Justice Department to target his political enemies.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked enforcement of an Oklahoma law that imposes criminal penalties on non-citizens who enter Oklahoma illegally, saying the law likely intrudes on the federal government's authority over immigration.

President Donald Trump’s political appointees at the department cited antisemitism on campuses as justification for using the law, the False Claims Act, to target universities and other institutions that Trump views as bastions of opposition to his agenda and a ripe populist target to rile up his right-wing base.

A federal judge said Wednesday that the Trump Justice Department likely engaged in unconstitutional retaliation when it cut off grants to American Bar Association programs assisting victims of domestic violence.

The move by the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey to charge a Democratic U.S. congresswoman over a scuffle at an immigration detention center illustrated the Justice Department's readiness to move against President Donald Trump's political rivals.

(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Friday plans to meet with the victims of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019 ahead of a June 23 trial date the planemaker faces, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.

The Justice Department may move decisions about charging public from headquarters to regional U.S. attorney offices.

The U.S. Justice Department plans to press ahead with a merger of its two agencies that investigate drug and firearms offenses, though the effort would still need approval from Congress, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.