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

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

Republicans roasted Attorney General Merrick Garland on social media after a video of him doing a victory lap while leaving the Department of Justice became viral. In the clip, which was posted on Friday via X, a celebratory Garland walked and thanked cheering department staffers while the outgoing AG exited out of the building.

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 under former President Donal

The Justice Department employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump's classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.

After a tumultuous tenure clouded by two failed criminal prosecutions against the incoming president, Attorney General Merrick Garland is leaving the Justice Department the same way he came in: trying to defend it against political attacks.

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital.

A judge is hearing arguments Friday on whether members of Congress will be permitted to view Jack Smith's final report on Donald Trump's classified documents case.

Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.

Attorney General Merrick Garland bid farewell to the Justice ... eventually stymied federal prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump. His speech offered a show of solidarity with career ...

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

DONALD TRUMP’S SECOND TERM, like his first, will focus on two projects. The first is destroying the rule of law. The second is lying. And in these pursuits, Trump has a new right-hand man: Vice President JD Vance.