Attorney General Merrick Garland came in with a mission to calm the waters at the Justice Department and restore its reputation for independence after four turbulent years during Donald Trump's presid

With Donald Trump returning to the White House, Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Justice Department and urged its ongoing independence.

Democrats have begun blaming U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland for the 2024 election after claiming he waited too long to launch an investigation into President-elect Donald Trump. Garland ...

A group of congresspeople suggested Garland could drop the charges against Trump's co-defendants if they stand in the way of releasing Smith's final report on the classified documents case

Within days of becoming attorney general, he assembled his deputies and told them to turn over every Trump rock. Blame a lumbering system—and an electorate that didn’t care.

The report, released just days before Trump is to return to the White House, focuses fresh attention on his frantic but failed effort to cling to power in 2020.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to publicly release the special counsel's report on the prosecution of Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election, the Justice ...

Jack Smith resigned after submitting the final report of his investigation of Donald Trump over alleged 2020 election interference and retaining classified documents to AG Merrick Garland.

Donald Trump attacked ... for Attorney General Merrick Garland summarizing his findings. The federal judge who heard -- and dismissed -- the documents case against Trump last year temporarily ...

During hearings on Merrick Garland's nomination to be President Joe Biden's attorney general, the longtime federal appeals court judge told senators in 2021 that he hoped to “turn down the volume” on public discourse about the Justice Department and return to the days when the agency was not the “center of partisan disagreement.

When the Supreme Court justices first shared an inaugural stage with Donald Trump, they heard the new president deliver a 16-minute declaration against the country and vow, “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

It’s hard to say who is the worst attorney general in American history. The candidates are many and comprise a veritable rogue’s gallery of sadists, reactionaries and incompetents. They range from A.