Donald Trump achievements: Criminal justice, law enforcement, and other DOJ matters

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Main article: Donald Trump achievements

This article is a non-exhaustive list of achievements by U.S. President Donald Trump, his administration, and Congress related to criminal justice, law enforcement, and other matters pertaining to the Justice Department.

For DOJ or law enforcement actions related to illegal immigration, see Donald Trump achievements: Immigration, illegal immigration, and border security.

Legislation signed

  • June 2, 2017—President Trump signed a bill into law to reduce the backlog of families of fallen police officers waiting to receive benefits due to their status.[1]

Executive actions

Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a strong conservative who strongly believed in President Trump's agenda,[2] completely reformed the Justice Department, reorienting it in a strongly conservative direction and with conservative policies, in stark contrast with the Obama Administration.[3][4]

2017

Attorney General Sessions had made numerous policy changes promoting conservative governance in the DOJ by the six-month mark in Trump's presidency.[5] Despite the fears of liberals, the DOJ strongly enforced hate crime laws.[6]

  • February 2017—Attorney General Sessions rescinded an Obama Administration memo that directed the Bureau of Prisons to begin phasing out private prisons.[7]
  • February 9, 2017—President Trump signed three executive orders pertaining to law enforcement. The first cracked down and strengthens the law against international crime organizations, the second deals with anti-law enforcement crimes, and third with finding a strategy for reducing crime in general, "including, in particular, illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and violent crime."[8] Attorney General Sessions proceeded to implement the orders.[9]
  • March 10, 2017—Attorney General Sessions asked the 46 remaining U.S. attorneys appointed by Obama, arguably the most left-wing president in U.S. history, to resign.[10][11] One of those U.S. attorneys was the failed Zachary Fardon, who was lax in his prosecution of gun crimes (Sessions directed the Justice Department to increase prosecutions on gun-law violations and to reinforce harsh sentences for such).[12] When one of those attorneys, Preet Bharara, refused to resign (likely for political gain), he was fired.[13] Later, in May 2017, more Obama holdovers left the Justice Department.[14]
  • April 3, 2017—Attorney General Sessions ordered the Department of Justice to review Obama's agreements with local police departments. Sessions made this order to give back local control to police departments.[15]
  • April 13, 2017—The Justice Department prosecuted two doctors and one other for practicing female genital mutilation – the first such prosecutions under a federal law passed by Congress in 1996 prohibiting the practice.[16]
  • May 9, 2017—Although he previously stated he was not planning on asking him to resign,[17] President Trump, at the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, fired Obama-appointed FBI director James Comey for being unfit to serve in the position.[18] Democrats and liberals were dismayed at the decision,[19] but it showed that Trump was serious about shaking up D.C. and "draining the swamp."[20]
  • May 11, 2017—Attorney General Sessions ended Obama and Eric Holder's policy of pursuing light sentences for criminals when he ordered federal prosecutors to pursue "the most serious and readily provable offense" committed by those under prosecution.[21]
  • June 7, 2017—Attorney General Sessions ended a policy begun by Eric Holder where the Justice Department would reach settlements with companies that required them to pay third-party groups, many of which were left-wing organizations.[22] It was reported in August 2017 that the DOJ was investigating Holder's policy.[23]
  • June 20, 2017—Attorney General Sessions launched the National Public Safety Partnership as part of a wider DOJ effort at countering violent crime.[24]
  • June 30, 2017—The Trump Administration sent 20 ATF agents to Chicago to help the city fight gun violence.[25] The local US Attorney said the same day that his office had already prosecuted more Chicago gun cases in 2017 than it had done throughout the entire year 2016.[26]
  • July 13, 2017—The DOJ announced it had charged 412 people for health care fraud schemes that had defrauded taxpayers of $1.3 billion, something Attorney General Sessions described as "the largest health care fraud takedown operation in American history."[27]
  • July 19, 2017—Attorney General Sessions reversed Eric Holder's limitation of asset forfeiture, expanding the ability for state and local law enforcement departments to seize property using federal law, rather than just state or local law. Several safeguards were implemented along with this policy.[28]
  • July 2017—It was reported that federal gun crime prosecutions by the DOJ in the preceding three months increased 23% over the same period in 2016, showing the Justice Department was taking a tough stance on gun crimes.[29]
  • August 2, 2017—The DOJ launched opioid fraud and abuse unit to fight opioid prescription abuses and the opioid crisis.[30]
  • August 4, 2017—Attorney General Sessions and the DOJ cracked down on illegal leaks of classified information from within the government, taking actions such as actively pursuing three times more investigations in the first six months of the Trump Administration than had been open at the end of the Obama Administration and by creating a counterintelligence unit in the FBI for these investigations.[31]

Other achievements

  • President Trump attended a memorial service for police killed in the line of duty and expressed strong support for the police and strong opposition to violence directed at police.[32]

References

  1. ↑ Multiple references:
  2. ↑ Boyle, Matthew (July 25, 2017). Jeff Sessions: A Man Who Embodies the Movement That Elected Donald Trump President. Breitbart News. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ Munro, Neil (April 17, 2017). Report: AG Jeff Sessions Enacts Comprehensive Reform at Justice Department. Breitbart News. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ Henneke, Robert; Brown, Emily (June 21, 2017). Sessions is cleaning up the Justice Department, and not a moment too soon. The Hill. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  5. ↑ Starr, Penny; Mason, Ian (July 25, 2017). Jeff Sessions’ Tenure at DOJ Marked by Progress on President Trump’s America First Agenda. Breitbart News. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  6. ↑ Mason, Ian (July 2, 2017). Jeff Sessions to DOJ Hate Crime Summit: ‘We Will Not Tolerate the Targeting of Any Community in Our Country’. Breitbart News. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ Chakraborty, Barnini (March 16, 2017). Trump administration reversal on private prison use faces pitfalls. Fox News. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  8. ↑ Fabian, Jordan (February 9, 2017). Trump signs executive actions aimed at crime crackdown. The Hill. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  9. ↑ Wheeler, Lydia (July 26, 2017). Sessions acting on violent crime task force recommendations. The Hill. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  10. ↑ AG Sessions asks remaining 46 US attorneys to resign. Fox News. March 10, 2017. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  11. ↑ Attorney General Jeff Sessions Seeks Resignations of 46 US Attorneys. Breitbart News. March 10, 2017. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  12. ↑ Hawkins, Awr (March 11, 2017). Jeff Sessions Asks Chicago’s Failed Obama-Appointed Federal Prosecutor to Resign. Breitbart News. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  13. ↑ US attorney Bharara is fired after rejecting Sessions' step-down request. Fox News. March 11, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  14. ↑ Mason, Ian (May 26, 2017). More Obama Holdovers Flushed Out of Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department. Breitbart News. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  15. ↑ Multiple references:
  16. ↑ Multiple references:
  17. ↑ Rodriguez, Katherine (April 12, 2017). Trump Does Not Intend to Ask FBI Director James Comey to Resign. Breitbart News. Retrieved April 13, 2017. However, President Trump later stated that he had been planning on firing Comey from the beginning of his presidency:
  18. ↑ Multiple references: It should be noted that at the time of his firing, Comey was very unpopular, moreso than the president:
  19. ↑ Multiple references: However, liberals and Democrats changed their positon on firing Comey, thus acting as hypocrites:
  20. ↑ Boyle, Matthew (May 10, 2017). The Unconventional President: Donald Trump Shakes Washington to Its Core by Firing Comey. Breitbart News. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  21. ↑ Multiple references:
  22. ↑ Multiple references:
  23. ↑ Mason, Ian (August 4, 2017). Exclusive – Jeff Sessions Orders Look into ‘DOJ Slush Fund’ Payments to Leftists. Breitbart News. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  24. ↑ Mason, Ian (June 20, 2017). AG Jeff Sessions Vows to Counter Rise in Violent Crime, Launches ‘National Public Safety Partnership’. Breitbart News. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  25. ↑ Multiple references:
  26. ↑ The Latest: Feds prosecuting most Chicago gun cases in years. The Washington Times. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  27. ↑ Multiple references:
  28. ↑ Multiple references:
  29. ↑ Multiple references:
  30. ↑ Multiple references:
  31. ↑ Multiple references:
  32. ↑ Multiple sources:
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