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

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 presid

The Justice Department said Garland plans to release Jack Smith's report on Trump's 2020 election interference efforts.

Within days of becoming attorney general, he assembled his deputies and told them to turn over every Trump rock. Blame a lumbering system—and an electorate that didn’t care.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s long-awaited report on Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case argues that the president-elect would’ve been convicted at trial had he not won the 2024

Attorney General Merrick Garland informed Congress in a letter Wednesday that special counsel Jack Smith has concluded his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump. Garland informed ...

When Donald Trump won his race to recapture the presidency ... plan to distribute it to relevant members of Congress. Merrick Garland, the outgoing attorney general, has previously indicated ...

The attempt to hold Donald Trump accountable for seeking to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election ended shortly after midnight on Tuesday with a whimper, as the United States Department of Justice posted online special counsel Jack Smith’s

A Georgia appeals court has upheld the dismissal of six of the charges brought in the 2020 Fulton County election interference case against Donald Trump ... are urging Merrick Garland to take ...

The special counsel says he stands fully behind his decision to bring criminal charges against the president-elect and says he believes Trump would have been convicted had he not won the 2024 election.

The filing comes amid a legal fight to stop Attorney General Merrick Garland from releasing the special counsel’s report of his investigations into then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to ...

Judge Aileen Cannon has slapped down an attempt to block special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on Donald ... Trump’s classified documents case will be set to a hearing, per Cannon’s Monday memo. In a filing last week, Attorney General Merrick ...