President Donald Trump directed the Justice Department to help states obtain lethal injection drugs and launch a whole new round of capital prosecutions. But even if he succeeds in that endeavor, ...

The fast-moving legal battle over the release of special counsel Jack Smith's final report played out days before Trump's second-term inauguration.

WASHINGTON − As President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration looms, Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Justice Department Thursday against claims that it has been weaponized ...

The letter signed by 10 senators who sit on the upper chamber's Judiciary Committee comes a week ahead of Trump taking office.

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

Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department ...

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.

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

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

Merrick Garland Exits With His Record Under Scrutiny ... independence after four turbulent years under Republican President Donald Trump, who fired one attorney general and feuded with another.

Some time in the next five days, Merrick Garland will step down as the nation’s eighty ... likely include widespread criticism that he slow-walked the prosecution of Donald Trump. Critics allege that ...