DOJ secures sentencing for 2022 shooting
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
A Salisbury man has been sentenced for his role in a 2022 shooting that injured a mother of three in Felton. Jared Hopkins, 28, was sentenced on August 13 to 55 years’ incarceration suspended after 14 years for decreasing levels of supervision. The sentencing follows Hopkins’s guilty plea on April 29 of this year to […]
Attorney General Jennings co-leads multistate lawsuit against Trump’s illegal attacks on crime victim assistance funds
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, August 18, 2025
$15 million at stake for Delaware survivors, families, shelters, and service providers Attorney General Kathy Jennings today announced that she is co-leading a coalition of 21 attorneys general in suing the Trump Administration over the illegal imposition of conditions on congressionally-authorized Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grants. The Trump Administration has illegally declared that states will be […]
Delaware sues to protect Head Start and other programs from illegal Trump cuts
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, August 15, 2025
Attorney General Kathy Jennings joined a suit against the Trump Administration to stop an unlawful attempt to defund Head Start and other education programs in Delaware communities. “We have never had to fight so hard to defend children—in this case some of Delaware’s most vulnerable—from their own president,” said Attorney General Jennings. “Threatening to defund […]
AG Jennings sues to block unlawful attacks on medically necessary health care for transgender youth
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Attorney General Kathy Jennings on Friday, August 1 sued to block the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict access to medically necessary care for transgender youth. The lawsuit asks a federal court to protect access to care in the wake of the Trump administration’s efforts to deter doctors and hospitals from offering medically appropriate care to […]
Meyer, Jennings secure major win as Department of Education restores previously withheld funding
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings and Gov. Matt Meyer today responded to official confirmation that the U.S. Department of Education has released previously withheld education funding to Delaware. Attorney General Jennings joined a coalition in filing a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s abrupt and unlawful decision to freeze this funding earlier this month. “The Trump […]
