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,

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — During hearings on Merrick Garland’s nomination to be ... the volume” on the public discourse about the Justice Department and return to the days when the agency was ...

“Merrick Garland has not, I think, been a very effective public defender of the integrity and impartiality of the Department of Justice ... Saturday, […] UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The ...

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 ...

Gabbard is the forty-seventh president’s pick for director of national intelligence, but in order to actually get the job, she’ll need the support of every single Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee—and it appears that she currently does not have the votes.

The president wants to implement a costly missile defense system in order to do something about the zero missiles that fall on the United States every year.