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.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Attorney General Merrick Garland reacts during a farewell ceremony at the Department of Justice, Thursday ...

Republicans roasted Attorney General Merrick Garland on social media after a video of him doing a victory lap while leaving the Department of Justice became viral. In the clip, which was posted on Friday via X, a celebratory Garland walked and thanked cheering department staffers while the outgoing AG exited out of the building.

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Vice President J.D. Vance explained the president's decision to offer a blanket pardon to more than 1,500 people charged over th 6, 2021, Capitol riot, during an interview with CBS's Margaret Brennan,

Attorney General Merrick Garland said "norms" determine the principles upon which the Justice Department operates while bidding farewell to staffers after leading it over the past four years.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland's address follows the Senate confirmation hearings of his potential replacement, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Garland was too timid. By waiting to go after Trump aggressively he gave the authoritarian movement the ability to run out the clock, avoid accountability, and return to power. Garland should have come out of the chute at 200 mph and taken dead aim at Trump’s criminality from Day 1.

Washington – During hearings on Merrick ... on public discourse about the Justice Department and return to the days when the agency was not the “center of partisan disagreement.” It didn’t go as planned. Garland came in with a mission to calm ...

Under Garland’s supervision, the Justice Department has brought consequential antitrust cases against some of the largest companies in the United States. Prosecutors brought a groundbreaking ...

Vice President Vance defended President Trump’s decision to issue sweeping pardons to roughly 1,500 individuals charged in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including to those