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.

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.

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON — During hearings on Merrick Garland’s nomination to be President Joe Biden ... for independence after four turbulent years under Republican President Donald Trump, who fired one attorney general and feuded with another.

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.

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.

Among his flurry of day-one executive orders, President Donald Trump directed ... thanks to former Attorney General Merrick Garland, it will be harder for Trump to turn death sentences into ...

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 ...

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.