WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's choice for the Supreme Court prepared for initial courtesy calls with senators Thursday as Democrats began the next phase of their drive to put unbearable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee want the Justice Department to preserve all records related to special counsel Jack ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate has voted 70-30 to confirm Merrick Garland as the nation’s attorney general. With Wednesday’s bipartisan vote, the federal appeals court judge will head the ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats asked Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday to save all records related to the Department of Justice’s two criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump ...

A newly released Senate Judiciary document reveals that then-Attorney General Merrick Garland was briefed in early 2023 on special counsel Jack Smith’s efforts to obtain communications from Trump’s ...

Garland, a once-beloved appellate judge whose nomination to the Supreme Court was thwarted by a Republican Senate, took the reins of the department in 2021. He began in the role by pledging, as he ...

Justice Elena Kagan says the court is "working hard" to achieve consensus and avoid 4-4 deadlocks. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley will meet Merrick Garland for breakfast. And a look at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland leaves a Department of Justice news conference in October. (Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press) In ...

“These are the times that try men’s souls.” That haunting phrase, written by Thomas Paine in December 1776, convinced colonial forces not to give up in the early days of the Revolution and inspired ...

(CNN) — Here's a look at the life of Merrick Garland, Supreme Court nominee and chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Other Facts: Garland supervised the investigation of the 1995 ...

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith has turned over to Attorney General Merrick Garland the completed final report on his two investigations that resulted in felony charges against President-elect ...