Federal prosecutors could investigate state and local officials who do not cooperate with Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies.

It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or violence.

The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to pause any ongoing litigation left over from the administration of former President Joe Biden, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters on Wednesday.

The U.S. Justice Department has ordered its civil rights division to pause any existing litigation left over from the administration of former President Joe Biden, and to not pursue any new cases or settlements,

WASHINGTON – Shortly before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted Leonard Peltier’s life sentence to indefinite house arrest following decades of community activists fighting for his release.

Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has recognized the amendment as part of the Constitution. We rate Biden’s claim False.

Minutes before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa member Leonard Peltier's life sentence.

The outgoing Biden administration has released Leonard Peltier from prison. Numerous activists and tribal officials have requested the release of Peltier, whom they believe to be innocent of killing two FBI agents in 1975.

Richards, the eldest daughter of Gov. Ann Richards, forged her own path as a tireless advocate for women across Texas and the United States.

President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two.

Cecile Richards, a prominent women's rights advocate and former head of Planned Parenthood, died at 67 from brain cancer. Her family and President Biden honored her legacy.

Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.