Purdue Pharma settlement secures final AG signatures
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, June 16, 2025
AG Jennings helped secure multibillion national settlement with Purdue, Sacklers WILMINGTON – Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings today announced that 55 attorneys general, representing all eligible states and U.S. territories, have agreed to sign on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family. The Sackler family has also informed […]
AG Jennings: Trump won’t protect the innocent. Delaware must.
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
The Trump administration has terrified America’s immigrant communities. It has violated the rule of law, disregarded basic human decency, and cloaked its malice in vague claims about public safety. I’ve spent my career in public safety, and the essence of that work is to protect the innocent; Trump’s tactics have made them less safe, not […]
Attorney General Kathy Jennings Sues Trump Administration to Keep Machine Gun Devices Out of Delaware
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, June 9, 2025
Attorney General Kathy Jennings today announced that she is co-leading a coalition of 15 Attorneys General in suing the Trump Administration, and in particular the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), over its plans to distribute thousands of machinegun conversion devices (MCD) to communities across the United States. ATF’s action involves Forced Reset […]
Delaware, AmeriCorps win key court battle
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Thursday, June 5, 2025
States win preliminary injunction, restoring funding for key AmeriCorps programs nationwide A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction restoring key funding for the national service program AmeriCorps following a lawsuit co-led by Attorney General Kathy Jennings and joined by 23 states and the District of Columbia. AmeriCorps, an independent federal agency tasked with engaging […]
Federal court blocks Trump administration’s disastrous tariffs
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2025
A federal court has blocked unlawful tariffs imposed by President Trump’s executive orders under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The ruling, issued Wednesday afternoon by the U.S. Court of International Trade, came in response to a multistate lawsuit from 12 state attorneys general, including Delaware AG Kathy Jennings. “The courts have affirmed what […]
