The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against New York state, challenging state policies that blocked immigration officials from arresting individuals at or near New York courthouses.

That includes two monuments in California created by former President Joe Biden at the request of Native American tribes.

The Justice Department has put U.S. attorneys on notice to be prepared to act if there is violence at this weekend's anti-Trump rallies.

This latest lawsuit in a series of sanctuary city litigation underscores the Department of Justice’s commitment to keeping Americans safe and aggressively enforcing the law,” US Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.

The federal investigation comes after “information” that the state government used affirmative action in their employment practices.

In 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice, under then-President Joe Biden, entered into a court-ordered agreement with Lakeland Bank to halt redlining in Black and Latino neighborhoods in Newark and compensate for the discriminatory lending practice with $12 million in mortgage subsidies and the establishment of a new branch in the city.

The U.S. Justice Department will restart enforcement of the decades-old law outlawing foreign bribery, with a scaled-down approach aimed at reducing burdens on U.S. companies, according to a memo and remarks by a top official.