The order reverses Biden’s ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Private immigrant detention never stopped and is expected to grow.

He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.

A memo asserts that state and local officials are bound to cooperate and could face criminal prosecution or civil penalties if they fail to comply.

Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to withdraw the federal government’s lethal injection protocol on the grounds that it causes unconstitutional suffering.

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration.

The Executive Orders are said by Trump critics as a rebuke to the Biden Administration’s decision to commute the 37 of 40 prisoners on death row, and the Attorney General Merrick Garland’s calling for a review of execution protocols.

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this country." Lawyers say the order could be difficult to enforce.

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration.

Seven Brevard County men - including a Titusville man belonging to the Oathkeepers - were pardoned by President Trump for roles in Jan. 6 riots.

A majority of Americans disapproved of Mr Trump's decision, a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Jan 21 found. Read more at straitstimes.com.

An El Paso man convicted in connection with the 2021 Capitol riot was released from prison after President Donald Trump's signed an executive order.

Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday, after the new president pardoned more than 1,