MERRICK GARLAND

Investiture ceremony marks the first time that Jackson, the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, has taken her place on the bench.

Newly-confirmed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was welcomed to the Supreme Court Friday with a traditional investiture ceremony.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she has “a seat at the table now and I’m ready to work,” leaning into her history-making role as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Families and survivors are divided over whether the Justice Dept. should seek the death penalty for Payton Gendron, accused of fatally shooting 10 Black people.

12 Senate Judiciary members sent a letter to Attorney General Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray asking for an explanation of "the extraordinary fact pattern" of the prosecution and arrest of pro-life activist, Mark Houck.

More than 10.2 million fentanyl pills were seized during drug busts across the country in a nearly four-month span, the Justice Department said.

Between May and September, the DEA and local police around the country seized more than 10 million fentanyl pills and hundreds of pounds of powder, he said. First reported in February, the rainbow pills have been seized in 21 states now, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said. While fentanyl is still more commonly disguised as oxycodone or another prescription drug, the rainbow pills are on the increase. In addition to being pressed into fake pills, fentanyl powder is also moved into other drugs like cocaine and heroin, Milgram said. Fake prescription pills are especially dangerous because it's difficult to tell how strong they are.

Federal officials say an increasing number of fake prescription pills containing potentially deadly fentanyl are helping drive overdose death rates to record levels in the U.S. And officials warn that some of the pills are being manufactured in rainbow colors designed to look like candy.

The DOJ and FBI appear eager to apply the law with a vengence when it involves a pro-life activist. But they seem to shrug off violence directed at pro-life centers and activists.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is demanding answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland on the FBI arrest last week of a pro-life Catholic activist in Pennsylvania.

Hawley questioned why the pro-choice extremists responsible for the wave of vandalism at pregnancy centers have not been arrested.

GOP senators are demanding answers from DOJ on why Igor Danchenko was hired by the FBI as a confidential human source and paid with taxpayer dollars.

The government is getting its day in court to try to block a partnership between American Airlines and JetBlue.

President Joe Biden’s pick to head the National Archives is pledging to be a nonpartisan leader as she tries to allay concerns by Republicans considering her nomination.

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, disclosed in 2020 that a federal prosecutor in Delaware was investigating his tax affairs.

Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas have single-handedly exposed the left's hypocrisy on border security and illegal immigration.

Senate Republicans are asking for the Justice Department to give U.S. Attorney David Weiss special counsel authority as he investigates Hunter Biden.

NEW YORK — Attorney General Merrick Garland addressed the "urgent" need to overcome the "intense polarization in America" in an impassioned and at times emotional speech on Saturday. Garland delivered his remarks after administering the oath of allegiance to 200 new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony on Ellis Island in New York. “We must not allow the fractures between us to fracture our democracy,” Garland said. Only three of them made it to the United States, however, including his grandmother. When asked if he was excited to hear the attorney general speak, Parker’s face lit up with surprise.

Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered his remarks after administering the oath of allegiance to 200 new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony on Ellis Island in New York.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is firing back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom after he requested DOJ investigate his state and others for “kidnapping” crimes for sending illegal immigrants to other locations.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom suggested sending migrants from Florida to Martha's Vineyard could constitute kidnapping in a letter to the Department of Justice.

President Joe Biden has nominated a Miami litigator and longtime government lawyer to serve as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, the office currently involved in the search warrants at the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump.

A Florida prosecutor said responses from various allies of former President Trump to reports that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had issued dozens of subpoenas in its Jan. 6 probe show Attorney General Merrick Garland’s prosecutorial strategy has given Trump allies “a false sense of security.” “The fact that [Stephen] Bannon and other MAGA leaders…

Views of the court have become historically polarized, but whether Democrats can capitalize on their voters' anger is another question.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThe latest response filed by former President Donald Trump’s lawyers in the special master dispute before Judge Aileen Cannon smacks of an extremism and desperation perhaps borne of having been maneuvered into a legal corner by Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department.Instead of filing a concise counter to the DOJ’s carefully tailored ask of Judge Cannon to partially stay her own order just enough to allow investigators acce

"The legitimacy of the court was undermined when they [Senate Republicans] wouldn't take up Merrick Garland," Franken said during a CNN segment.

"Tell me when it happened before," Franken asked Alice Stewart after she made a claim about filling Supreme Court vacancies in election years.

The Justice Department appealed a federal judge's ruling for the appointment of a special master to review the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago in August.

Longstanding DOJ policy bars prosecutors from taking overt investigative steps that could influence the outcome of an election.

The fatal flaw with indicting Trump is that every crime being suggested requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt of some special mental state.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Justice Department will no longer allow political appointees to go to fundraisers and other campaign events under restrictions handed down Tuesday that are aimed at maintaining the department's independence from politics. Appointees, hired under presidential administrations rather than making long careers at the Justice Department, have been allowed to attend political events passively on their personal time with prior approval. It also removes an exception that had allowed people with close family members running for office to attend political events during presidential election years, and it bars attending such events on the evening of Election Day. On his first day in office more than a year ago, Garland vowed to prioritize the Justice Department’s political independence after the departure of Trump, who had insisted on officials' personal loyalty. More recently, Trump and his allies have sought to cast the Aug. 9 search at Mar-a-Lago — part of an investigation into the removal of classified records — as a political weaponization of the Justice Department.

The Justice Department will no longer allow its political appointees to go to fundraisers or other campaign events.

With Justice Dept. under attack ahead of midterm elections, Attorney General Merrick Garland says political appointees cannot attend campaign events at all.

In an Aug. 30 memo, Attorney General Merrick Garland writes that he's ending the long-standing policy of allowing political appointees to attend partisan political events events.

Merrick Garland's directive represents a break from long-standing department policy and a strict interpretation of the Hatch Act.

It’s been a while since we checked in with Florida’s two brilliant and attractive U.S. senators, Rick Scott and Marco Rubio.

It's hard to argue for patience in the face of so much misconduct, but we just don't know yet how strong a case prosecutors may have. And that matters.

A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified documents at President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.

The U.S. Secret Service said Friday that it has recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic loans and is returning the money to the Small Business Administration.

A former Louisville police detective who helped write the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor’s apartment has pleaded guilty to a federal charge.

Tuesday’s primary elections feature two top Florida Democrats squaring off for the right to face Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he didn’t take any classified information with him when he left office.

Political cartoons take aim at the conflict between the GOP and the DOJ after the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) improperly shielded portions of a memo to Attorney General William Barr that concerned whether former President Trump obstructed a special counsel probe into his campaign’s dealings with Russia during the 2016 presidential election, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled on Friday. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel on…

Buffalo-area businessman Carl Paladino made the comment in an interview with Breitbart News Saturday on Aug. 13. During the interview, Paladino was criticizing President Joe Biden for what he said was a lack of leadership and disengagement from government. “So we have a couple of unelected people who are running our government, in an administration of people like Garland, who should be not only impeached, he probably should be executed,” Paladino said. A Paladino spokesperson, Vish Burra, told The Buffalo News the candidate wasn't actually calling for Garland's death. During his run for governor, he was criticized for forwarding emails to friends containing racist jokes and pornography.

A Republican candidate for Congress in western New York said in an interview that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “should be executed," before later clarifying that he wasn’t being serious.

A Republican candidate for Congress in western New York said in a radio interview that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “should be executed” for authorizing a search former President Donald Trump's home, before clarifying later in the show that he wasn't being serious. Buffalo-area businessman Carl Paladino made the comment in an interview with Breitbart News Saturday on Aug. 13. During the interview, Paladino was criticizing President Joe Biden for what he said was a lack of leadership and disengagement from government.

The DOJ had asked Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart not to unseal the affidavit, arguing that it could compromise the probe involving Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

A magistrate judge said that portions of the document could be unsealed. But seeing the document remain mostly sealed is likely a best-case scenario for Trump.

The former vice president disagreed Wednesday with those in his party who have called to “defund the FBI” after the bureau’s search of former president Donald Trump’s residence in Florida last week.

Speaking in New Hampshire, Pence was asked what went through his mind when he heard about the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home as part of a federal investigation into Trump took classified records from the White House. Pence, who like Trump is considering a 2024 presidential bid, said he has been troubled by what he called the politicization of the FBI. He also said the Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland should be more transparent about what led authorities to conduct the search. But Trump's former vice president also had a message for the GOP. “The Republican Party is the party of law and order,” Pence continued.

Former Vice President Mike Pence is imploring fellow Republicans to stop lashing out at the FBI over the search of Donald Trump’s Florida home.

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Congress passed the Presidential Records Act after Watergate, preserving documents that otherwise would have been Pres. Nixon's personal property.

The conspiratorial, wartime rhetoric has not stopped, and Trump seems to have blessed its continuation.

U.S. Attorney General Garland Delivers A Statement At Department Of Justice WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 11: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland explains to reporters that he will not take questions after he delivered a statement at the U.S. Department of Justice August 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. Garland addressed the FBI's recent search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, announcing the Justice Department has filed a motion to unseal the search warrant as well as a property receipt for what was taken. The affidavit usually explains why law enforcement officials believe that there is evidence of a crime at a specific location. The search warrant at Trump’s home was carried out last week as part of an ongoing DOJ investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year, according to the filing. It went on to say that DOJ prosecutors interviewed witnesses in connection with the investigation of the material found by the FBI.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyDemocratic strategist James Carville has a message for people who are doubting Merrick Garland: Just wait.“People are like, well, but let’s wait and see a little bit. And this is like the top of the first inning. I mean, remember Merrick Garland is like a pit viper. He prosecuted the Oklahoma City bomber case, the Unabomber case, the Olympic bomber case. And I think these guys are really methodical,” Carville says on this episode of The New Abnormal pol

Justice Department officials and the FBI met for weeks discussing the warrant application before deciding to sign off on it, sources told The Wall Street Journal.

DOJ A recent two-week nationwide campaign located 84 minor victims of child sex trafficking and sexual exploitation offenses and also found 37 actively missing children, the FBI confirmed Monday. (robertcicchetti/Getty Images/iStockphoto)A recent two-week nationwide campaign located 84 minor victims of child sex trafficking and exploitation offenses and also found 37 actively missing children, the FBI confirmed Monday. >> Read more trending newsDubbed “Operation Cross Country,” the FBI-led initiative focused on “identifying and locating victims of sex trafficking and investigating and arresting individuals and criminal enterprises involved in both child sex and human trafficking,” the bureau stated in a news release. Agents and investigators also identified or arrested 85 suspects of child sexual exploitation and human trafficking offenses, the bureau stated. “Human trafficking is among the most heinous crimes the FBI encounters,” FBI Director Christopher Wray stated.

The danger is not organized civil war but individual Americans with deep resentments and delusions.

Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump asked a judge not to unseal an affidavit related to the FBI's search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

There’s a lot we still don’t know about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last week. What we know, or think we know, comes from a...

Doubts about Attorney General Merrick Garland are not about his character but his personality in dealing with political controversy.

Republicans in Congress are not only defending Donald Trump against the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home.

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate sent reverberations across the country, even before court papers were unsealed Friday.

Court papers show that the FBI recovered documents labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Former President Donald Trump is calling for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate.

The Justice Department has asked a court to unseal the federal warrant the FBI used to search the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump.

The director of the FBI has strong words for supporters of former President Donald Trump who have been using violent rhetoric in the wake of his agency’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

-U.S. Rep. Scott Perry says his cellphone was seized Tuesday by FBI agents carrying a search warrant.

For much of the year, small cracks in Donald Trump’s political support have been growing.

The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge this week to bar Idaho from enforcing its near-total abortion ban while a lawsuit pitting federal health care law against state anti-abortion legislation is underway.

The FBI’s unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence is ricocheting around government, politics and a polarized country.

Louisville activists who put in long hours protesting the death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of police say they felt relief this week when federal officials charged four officers.

The federal Bureau of Prisons is keeping its former director on the payroll as an adviser to his successor, at least for a short time.

The federal government has filed civil rights charges against four Louisville police officers over the drug raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor.

The Biden administration has filed its first legal challenge to a state abortion ban since the end of Roe v. Wade with a case that could allow hospitals to keep giving women abortion-related medical care in serious medical situations.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed in part at making it easier for women seeking abortions to travel between states to obtain access to the procedure.

The U.S. Justice Department says it is seeking possession of a Venezuelan cargo jet that has been grounded in Argentina since early June because it was previously owned by an Iranian airline that allegedly has ties to terror groups.

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit that challenges Idaho’s restrictive abortion law, arguing that it conflicts with a federal law requiring doctors to provide pregnant women medically necessary treatment that could include abortion.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has sworn in the new director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, as the Biden administration looks to reform the beleaguered agency.

The House Jan. 6 committee will share 20 of its interview transcripts with the Justice Department as federal prosecutors have been increasingly focused on efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the election.

The Justice Department says a Russian operative has been charged with using political groups in the United States to advance pro-Russia propaganda.

Attorney General Merrick Garland headlined a White House event bringing together pro bono lawyers, bar associations and public interest groups to discuss how best to offer legal services and protections for women seeking abortions.

The former chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence has testified before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

The Jan. 6 congressional hearings have paused, at least for now, and Washington is taking stock of what was learned about the actions of Donald Trump and associates surrounding the Capitol attack.

The Justice Department says it's investigating illegal dumping in Houston, including dead bodies and medical waste, that officials say is plaguing Black and Latino neighborhoods in the nation’s fourth largest city.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has wrapped up its public hearings — each featuring revelatory details about the day of violence itself or the weeks of efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election.

The National Association of Immigration Judges has asked the federal government to restore its union recognition after the Trump administration stripped its official status and the system’s chief judge resigned after two years on the job.

Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, members of Congress and even his family, Donald Trump refused on Jan. 6 to call off the mob attack at the Capitol.

Drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, captured by Mexican forces, has been notified that a process to extradite him to the United States for the murder of a DEA agent in 1985 and other crimes is beginning.

The United States’ motivation to find infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was never in doubt.

The NAACP is making a direct plea to Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Justice Department to open a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting death of Jayland Walker, the Black man who was killed last month by officers in Ohio in a hail of police gunfire.

A St. Cloud man was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for possessing an unregistered short-barreled rifle, according to a Department of Justice news release.

A new poll shows about half of Americans say former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in what happened on Jan. 6.

The House Jan. 6 committee has now heard dramatic testimony from former White House aides and others about Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

A multinational task force designed to seize Russian oligarchs' wealth has blocked and frozen $30 billion in sanctioned individuals’ property and funds in its first 100 days.

A former Trump White House aide has painted a portrait of a volatile commander-in-chief who lashed out at advisers as his grasp on power was extinguished.

Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure.

South Dakota’s Republican governor is pledging to bar mail-order abortion pills but says women shouldn't face prosecution for seeking them.