Trump wants to ramp up the federal death penalty. Before he left, the former attorney general made that harder ...

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 ...

The Justice Department employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump's ...

The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of ...

U.S. Attorney Hayden O'Byrne asked the appeals court to dismiss the classified documents case in a way it could not be ...

The classified documents case presents one of the first legal tests for the Trump administration and new Department of ...

On Monday, the defendant in four unprecedented criminal cases will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States.

When the Supreme Court justices first shared an inaugural stage with Donald Trump, they heard the new ... any consideration of then-Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s choice to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — During hearings on Merrick Garland's nomination ... protecting the Democratic president. Garland must now hand the department back to Trump, who has suggested he'll try to ...