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 presidency.

With Donald Trump returning to the White House, Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Justice Department and urged its ongoing independence.

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.

The volume of Smith’s report covering the investigation into whether Trump withheld White House documents won’t be released.

It’s a state of affairs in which Attorney General Merrick Garland playing it by the book will effectively aid Trump’s bid to keep special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the documents case ...

Education and defense officials have combined efforts to launch programs that support military children with disabilities, the White House said Thursday.

Senate Democrats want the DOJ to preserve all records related to special counsel Jack Smith's probes into Donald Trump, they wrote in a letter obtained by ABC News.

Therein lies the tragedy of Merrick Garland ... contacts between law enforcement officials and the White House, norms that Garland, as a young Justice lawyer in the Carter administration, helped ...

After TikTok said it would be "forced to go dark" on Sunday unless the White House took action, President-elect Trump told ABC News he'd be likely to grant the social media company an extension.

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 “turn down the volume” on the public discourse about the Justice Department and return to the days when the agency was not the “center of partisan disagreement.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed. That's what White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters on Jan. 18, 1985, after the Republican