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.

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 ...

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.

Republicans are sending signals that they might not back Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence.

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration.

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department's new leadership under ... former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland launched a Reproductive Rights Task Force aimed at protecting ...

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is directing ... s actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges,” Bove added. “The Department’s personnel must come together in ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this country." Lawyers say the order could be difficult to enforce.

It marked a sharp departure from what had been the department’s stance under President Joe Biden’s administration. Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, lauded the FACE Act as a key ...

Trump ran on a campaign to explicitly finish the job he started on Jan. 6 and, on his first day in power, he did that as best he could.