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.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland said "norms" determine the principles upon which the Justice Department operates while bidding farewell to staffers after leading it over the past four years.

Vice President J.D. Vance explained the president's decision to offer a blanket pardon to more than 1,500 people charged over th 6, 2021, Capitol riot, during an interview with CBS's Margaret Brennan,

Under Garland’s supervision, the Justice Department has brought consequential antitrust cases against some of the largest companies in the United States. Prosecutors brought a groundbreaking ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Attorney General Merrick Garland reacts during a farewell ceremony at the Department of Justice, Thursday ...

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.

WASHINGTON — With just a few days left until President-elect Donald Trump takes office, outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland said his farewell to a department he has guided through a ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland's address follows the Senate confirmation hearings of his potential replacement, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Washington – During hearings on Merrick ... on public discourse about the Justice Department and return to the days when the agency was not the “center of partisan disagreement.” It didn’t go as planned. Garland came in with a mission to calm ...

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.

The DOJ on Wednesday moved to dismiss the criminal charges against Trump's co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. The post ‘With prejudice’: Trump’s DOJ moves to drop charges against president’s co-defendants in Mar-a-Lago classified documents case first appeared on Law & Crime.