The Obama administration’s Justice Department had spent more than three years defending a policy that largely prohibits firearms on Army Corps of Engineers property. But the Trump administration, the caller indicated, was rethinking the government’s support for the prohibition. On the eve of oral arguments, the Justice Department filed an emergency motion stating that the Army Corps was “reconsidering the firearms policy challenged in this case,” sending the case to mediation. And because the Justice Department represents a wide array of federal agencies in legal matters, it is on the front lines of the shift on those issues. memo in the early weeks of the Trump administration, went further.

Source: New York Times September 10, 2017 21:25 UTC