The Justice Department plans to drop a Biden-era lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by employees of a company that houses thousands of unaccompanied migrant children and has received billions of dollars in federal grants to operate the facilities.
The decision follows a push by well-known Supreme Court litigator Lisa Blatt, a Williams & Connolly partner representing Southwest Key Programs, to get the Trump Justice Department to dismiss the matter. Blatt said it could hobble the administration’s goal of cracking down on illegal immigration, according to a Feb. 11 email to the Justice Department viewed by Bloomberg Law.
Suing Southwest Key under ...