Trump’s DOJ Halts Unpaid Summer Internships for Law Students

The US Justice Department has withdrawn offers for its volunteer legal internship program, with law students being informed that they would no longer have summer positions, according to multiple people familiar with the change.

Agency employees learned about the Trump administration decision on Friday and were making calls to students, according to one Justice Department attorney who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about it. About 1,000 law students typically serve as unpaid legal interns over the summer across the department and US attorney offices, according to the agency’s website.

A department spokesperson declined to comment.

The program’s halt followed a ...