It’s easy to lose track of all the news coming out of the Department of Justice. But beneath the headlines — the Jan. 6 dismissals and pardons, the “weaponization of government,” or the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams — something very important is happening.

President Trump is reshaping the department’s international law enforcement priorities to more closely align with the needs of the American people, instead of the white collar defense bar in Washington, D.C.

On Feb. 5, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced a new Justice Department policy to achieve the “total elimination” of cartels and transnational criminal organizations, and she closed and repurposed multiple corporate prosecuting units to achieve this objective. Then five days later, President Trump issued an executive order directing a 180-day “pause” on enforcement and directed Bondi to rethink how to use one law that has........

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