WASHINGTON (AP) — During hearings on Merrick Garland's nomination to be President Joe Biden's attorney general, the longtime federal appeals court judge told senators in 2021 that he hoped to ...

Judge Aileen M. Cannon said prosecutors should ... Before Mr. Trump took office and assumed control of the Justice Department, Merrick B. Garland, then the attorney general, had proposed showing ...

A judge deals President Trump his first setback ... State of Texas’ passing a restrictive abortion bill in 2021, Merrick B. Garland, the attorney general in the Biden administration, signaled ...

Republicans in the U.S. Senate, led by Sen. Marcia Blackburn, R-Tenn., filed a bill to increase protections for U.S. Supreme Court justices.

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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is bringing the U.S. Department of Justice in line with President Donald Trump’s platform, as ...

Democrats don’t have many tools to stop Trump’s agenda. But, Eric Garcia writes, the ones they have can be used powerfully ...

Newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi will arrive for her first day at the Justice Department Wednesday amid a firestorm ...

The charges were initially dismissed against Trump, Nauta and De Oliveira last year when Judge Aileen Cannon ... then-Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said he would not release the report ...

But the historic case was tossed out by district Judge Aileen Cannon last summer, with the Trump appointee ruling that ...

In a new ruling released Tuesday, Cannon granted a request from Trump's co-defendants, his aides Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, to deny the Department of Justice 's request to release the report.