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4 days ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Justin Wise |Jacklyn Wille |Seth Stern |Carmen Castro-Pagan
The Democratic mayor of Newark sued the acting US Attorney in New Jersey over his arrest outside a private detention facility linked to the administration’s mass deportation efforts. Ras Baraka in a Tuesday lawsuit accused Alina Habba of false arrest and malicious prosecution in connection with the May 9 incident, in which Baraka was arrested on a trespassing charge at the Delaney Hall private detention facility in Newark.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Justin Wise |Suzanne Monyak
The Trump administration is proposing to combine the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives with the Drug Enforcement Administration in what would be a dramatic overhaul in federal law enforcement. ATF, which has thousands of employees nationwide, would be “incorporated into DEA, addressing both drug and gun crimes,” according to a proposed fiscal 2026 budget document released Friday by the White House. The transition would be initiated in fiscal year 2026, the department said.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Justin Wise |Suzanne Monyak
The Trump administration is proposing to combine the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives with the Drug Enforcement Administration in what would be a dramatic overhaul in federal law enforcement, while proposing broad funding cuts across the Justice Department. ATF, which has thousands of employees nationwide, would be “incorporated into DEA, addressing both drug and gun crimes,” according to a proposed fiscal 2026 budget document released Friday by the White House.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Justin Wise |Suzanne Monyak |Seth Stern
The Trump administration is ratcheting up its threats of prosecution against Democrats and other critics, in an escalation of its use of the legal system to go after the president’s perceived enemies. The officials targeted include repeated Donald Trump antagonists such as ex-New York Gov.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Justin Wise |Suzanne Monyak
The Trump administration is ratcheting up its threats of prosecution against Democrats and other critics, in an escalation of its use of the legal system to go after the president’s perceived enemies. The officials targeted include repeated Donald Trump antagonists such as ex-New York Gov.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Suzanne Monyak |Justin Wise |Seth Stern
Emil Bove’s potential nomination to a federal appeals court seat is already dividing Republicans. In the National Review, Ed Whelan, a conservative lawyer who writes frequently about judicial confirmations, questioned in a short post whether President Donald Trump should appoint Bove, his former personal lawyer who is now a top Justice Department political appointee. The New York Times reported May 19 that Trump is considering Bove for a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Tiana Headley |Suzanne Monyak |Justin Wise
May 21, 2025, 9:30 PM UTC Emil Bove, attorney for Donald Trump, at Manhattan criminal court in New York, US, on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg Bove is top deputy to DOJ’s second-in-command Todd BlanchTwo vacancies on court that covers NJ, Pennsylvania, DelawareEmil Bove’s potential nomination to a federal appeals court seat is already dividing Republicans.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Justin Wise |Suzanne Monyak
New initiative to target contractors, federal-funding recipientsDOJ says FCA implicated by DEI, discrimination on campusThe Trump administration wants to use the False Claims Act, a law meant to target fraud by government contractors and federal-funding recipients, as a tool to target universities and other private institutions over their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Suzanne Monyak |Andrew Ramonas |Justin Wise |Seth Stern
The Trump administration wants to use the False Claims Act, a law meant to target fraud by government contractors and federal-funding recipients, as a tool to target universities and other private institutions over their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. The Justice Department said Monday that the new initiative would utilize the law to go after any institution “knowingly” violating federal civil rights laws despite certifying its compliance with such statutes.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Suzanne Monyak |Justin Wise
The Justice Department is reviewing its policies that require prosecutors to get approval from the headquarters-based public integrity section before charging federal lawmakers with a crime. Changes to those provisions, if adopted, could cut the section’s career attorneys out of the process in high-profile criminal cases against elected officials—and remove or weaken a guard against political influence in these cases.
