Attorney General Jennings sues HHS for discriminating against transgender Delawareans
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Attorney General Kathy Jennings last week joined 11 other attorneys general in suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for unlawfully conditioning hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding on states’ agreement to discriminate against transgender people. Under a new HHS policy, recipients of federal health, education, and research funding must […]
Appeals court blocks Trump Administration from defunding medical and public health research
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2026
Attorney General Kathy Jennings today issued the following statement after the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling permanently preventing the Trump Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from implementing a policy that would cut billions of dollars in […]
AG Jennings Opposes Trump Administration’s Proposals Aimed at Further Restricting Access to Gender-Affirming Care
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Attorney General Jennings today announced a statement opposing two of the Trump Administration’s newly proposed rules: one that would prohibit federal reimbursement for gender-affirming care for minors in the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs, and another that would prohibit providers who perform gender-affirming care on minors from participating in the Medicaid and Medicare programs. […]
AG Jennings sues Big Pharma over insulin price hikes
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Attorney General Jennings today announced a lawsuit against several drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) who conspired to increase insulin prices by as much as 1,000 percent over the past fifteen years. “The level of greed that would drive someone to price-gouge consumers over life-saving diabetes medicine is almost unfathomable,” said Attorney General Kathy […]
DOJ secures lengthy prison sentence for 2021 murder
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, December 22, 2025
A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to prison for his involvement in a 2021 murder that took place in Wilmington, Delaware. On December 18, 2025, Michael Samuel “Pacho” Bernier was sentenced to 18 years of incarceration. The sentencing follows his conviction in New Castle County Superior Court on one count of Murder Second Degree. “This […]
