Federal officials are asking a judge to bar the Illinois, Chicago, Cook County and the Cook County Sheriff from using local laws that protect migrants to hamper law enforcement.

Trump administration officials are suing Illinois and top state officials, hoping to force them to turn over suspected illegal immigrants rather than releasing them from jails and state prisons. The lawsuit filed Thursday is among the most recent efforts by Trump officials to push liberal-led states,

The former Trump defense lawyer and Florida attorney general issues a raft of new orders, undoing a broad array of Biden administration policies

The first attorney general, Edmund Randolph, was President George Washington’s confidant and close political ally. Between then and now, presidents have, from time to time, appointed friends and supporters to be attorneys general. They even chose campaign managers or their party’s national chairperson to be attorney general of the United States.

Staffers and employees working for the Department of Government Efficiency, headed by billionaire Elon Musk, have been temporarily barred from accessing data in the Treasury Department's payment system by the Department of Justice.