The executive branch of the government is involved when the Department of Justice charges a company with being a monopoly. The US Department of Justice has a different function from the judicial branch of the government. The judicial branch interprets the laws and judges the accused, while DOJ investigates and litigates cases.
The Mexican Cession (Spanish: Cesión mexicana) is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War