MERRICK GARLAND

An Associated Press review of dozens of legal filings shows that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department is fighting just as vigorously as Donald Trump's did to uphold death row inmates' sentences, despite Biden's opposition to capital punishment.

Rejon Taylor hoped the election of Joe Biden, the first U.S. president to campaign on a pledge to end the death penalty, would mean a more sympathetic look at his claims that racial bias and other trial errors landed him on federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana. Death penalty opponents expected Biden to act within weeks of taking office to fulfill his 2020 campaign promise to end capital punishment on the federal level and to work at ending it in states that still carry out executions.

Dissecting the House GOP's new report on the Justice Department's alleged "weaponization" of the FBI against parents who complain to school boards.

House Republicans outed the Biden administration and Merrick Garland's "misuse" of law enforcement agents in targeting "concerned parents" at school board meetings.

A fight looms over warrantless collection of communication of foreigners overseas.

Documents show the Biden administration had “no legitimate basis” for the use of law enforcement and counterterrorism resources on school board-related threats.

Supreme Court is being asked to review whether a law prohibiting the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence restraining orders violates the Second Amendment.

Public defenders operate under heavy pressure and budget constraints 60 years after the Supreme Court ruled low-income criminal defendants should be provided lawyers even if they can't pay for them.

Six Republican senators led by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., are demanding the Justice Department sue the Chinese Communist Party for its role in the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Biden's order aims to increase the number of checks before firearms sales and coincides with his visit to the site of the mass shooting at Monterey Park, Calif..

The first federal capital case tried under President Joe Biden ended with a split among jurors, meaning the life of an Islamic extremist who killed eight people in a New York City will be spared.

A judge has rejected a request from Google to transfer a federal antitrust lawsuit against it from Virginia to New York.

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it has found civil rights violations during an investigation into law enforcement in Louisville, Kentucky, following Breonna Taylor's death.

The U.S. Justice Department has found Louisville police engaged in discrimination and a pattern of violating constitutional rights, after an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor.

After more than two years of neglect by the Trump and Biden Administrations, Mark Frerichs describes how he survived Taliban captivity in Afghanistan.

On his way to Ukraine for an unannounced visit last week, Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke about the upholding the rule of law inside the U.S. and overseas in an exclusive interview with NPR.

The Justice Department's Task Force KleptoCapture, set up in the days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has gone after Kremlin-aligned elites, including their luxury yachts and opulent homes.

We detail the facts concerning two incidents cited by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).

Merrick Garland made an unannounced appearance at a meeting of law enforcement officials in Lviv, while Ukrainian forces battled to hold the city of Bakhmut.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., sounded off Thursday on the state of the Hunter Biden probe under Merrick Garland.

The more we learn, the more aggressive the attorney general’s approach looks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and top European legal officials, and called for Russia to face international prosecution for war crimes.

The Justice Department is assisting Ukraine in an investigation into war crimes committed by Russia.

Attorney General Garland supports effort to hold Russia accountable for war crimes.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D), the oldest member of the Senate, is in California this week “dealing with a health matter,” according to a spokesperson.

Republicans have signaled this will be a focal point. But their argument continues to be rife with spin and misinformation -- as evidenced by Sen. John Neely Kennedy's (R-La.) grilling of Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Former FBI Agents Nicole Parker and Steve Friend joined 'Hannity' on Wednesday to sound off on the state of the FBI after Merrick Garland's testimony, Wray's interview.

Laura Ingraham discusses the rampant "depravity" and lack of decency in the nation and how even the FBI is not respecting our laws on "The Ingraham Angle."

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., on Wednesday pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland to explain his controversial 2021 memo regarding threats to school board members.

Attorney General Merrick Garland says he won’t interfere with an investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes run by the U.S. Attorney in Delaware.

Texas Republicans Senator Ted Cruz and Rep. Chip Roy demanded answers from AG Merrick Garland about accusations the FBI secretly recorded a progressive anti-abortion group meeting.

"Can I answer the question?" Garland said at one point. "No, you cannot, you have refused to answer the question," Cruz responded.

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday took heavy criticism from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who accused him of politicizing the Justice Department.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said he is "proud" of the Department of Justice's work as he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sen. Chuck Grassley grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland during a Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday about the independence of the federal Hunter Biden probe.

An authoritative new Washington Post report reinforces how Trump's tactics can influence officials.

The FBI is attempting to track and punish attacks on pro-life pregancy centers "with urgency," Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday, despite few arrests on the issue.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday entitled “Oversight of the Department of Justice,” featuring testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland.

The attorney general will be peppered with questions by the Senate Judiciary Committee on topics likely to include the FBI search at Donald Trump’s Florida property.

His testimony comes as his department grapples with a number of politically sensitive investigations that are likely to be brought up by senators during the hearing.

AG Garland on Wednesday will face questions form Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on the anti-Catholic leaked FBI memo and the agency's FACE Act prosecutions against pro-life activists.

Biden administration officials are urging Congress to renew a surveillance program the U.S. government has long seen as vital in countering overseas threats of terrorism, cyberattacks and espionage operations.

President Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland is to appear before the new Congress for the first time during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday on Justice Department oversight.

The meetings come amid a busy week in Washington, where the Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness program.

Attorney General Merrick Garland will testify before the Senate Judiciary committee next Wednesday, marking Garland's first congressional testimony in the new congress.

Nearly 50 groups that received grants from the newly established Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative attended a two-day conference in St. Louis.

The Justice Department is sending out more than $200 million to help states and the District of Columbia administer “red-flag laws” and other crisis-intervention programs.

In a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, the Department of Justice called the subpoenas of Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray “premature” as it has offered to engage with the committee.

Fox News host Mark Levin explores the weaponization of the FBI and the DOJ and shares what Republicans need to do to stop it on ‘Life Liberty & Levin.’

Law enforcement groups are encouraging President Biden to strike a "positive" tone on policing during his upcoming State of the Union address following recent events.

Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio renewed demand that their committee be briefed on classified documents found at Trump and Biden residences, and expanded request to include documents found in former Vice President Pence's possession.

Democrats in the House of Representatives changed the rules in the last two years. Now they are going to have to face the consequences of all the changes they made.

Biden’s lawyers said last month that they had discovered no classified documents at Biden’s Rehoboth home after conducting a search.

The discovery of classified documents in Biden's garage will make it harder for special prosecutor Jack Smith to indict former President Trump for keeping documents at Mar-a-Lago.

The Justice Department has charged three men in an alleged plot that originated in Iran to kill an Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses.

Department of Justice announces Iran assassination plot against U.S. journalist after three Eastern European criminals indicted in New York.

A journalist in Brooklyn, New York, was the target of a murder plot directed by individuals in Iran, Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has "multiple options" for handling the investigation into former Vice President Mike Pence’s improper retention of classified records.

Sources told CBS News that the classified documents found at Pence's residence included briefings from foreign trips.

The FBI spent months spying on the ransomware group Hive and secretly helped victims before shutting the entire operation down.

Attorney General Merrick Garland and other U.S. officials say the FBI and international partners have at least temporarily disrupted the network of a prolific ransomware gang they infiltrated last year.

The Justice Department and eight states have filed an antitrust suit against Google.

Senior Democrats are expressing criticism of how President Joe Biden handled classified material after leaving office as vice president.

President Joe Biden says there is “no there there” following the discovery of classified documents and official records at his home and former office.

President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to work toward abolishing federal capital punishment.

The Justice Department is finalizing tighter regulations on guns with accessories known as stabilizing braces, a gun-control action touted by President Joe Biden after the devices were used in mass shootings.

There are now two special counsels investigating the handling of classified documents by two opposing U.S. presidents — a doubly tricky task for a Justice Department that must try to steer clear of politics.

Virtually everything was going right for President Joe Biden to open the year.

It’s President Joe Biden’s refuge from Washington — a place that’s part home office, part Sunday family dinner venue, a safe place for his treasured 1967 Corvette and a makeshift campaign studio during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney for Maryland nominated by then-President Donald Trump, will serve as special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware and at an office in Washington.

The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department probes into the discovery of classified documents at the home and former office of President Joe Biden has focused renewed attention on the role such prosecutors have played in modern American history.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an office in Washington.

A federal prosecutor says former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants charged with seditious conspiracy in the Capitol attack took aim at "the heart of our democracy” on Jan. 6, 2021.

For years, problems with classified materials have been a shortcut to controversy in Washington.

President Joe Biden says he was “surprised’ when he was informed that government records were found by his attorneys at a former office space in Washington.

The largest investigation in the Justice Department’s history keeps growing two years after a violent mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump attacked the Capitol.

As the U.S. deals with its deadliest overdose crisis to date, a national crime-prevention group is calling on the Justice Department to clamp down on social media’s role in the spread of fentanyl, the drug largely driving a troubling spike in overdose deaths among teenagers.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is moving to end sentencing disparities that have imposed harsher penalties for different forms of cocaine and worsened racial inequity in the U.S. justice system.

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he plans to question the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons this week about why the agency continues to stand by a high-ranking official who beat Black inmates in the 1990s.

A New York jury has convicted Donald Trump’s company of tax fraud.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says the early work of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division meant confronting white supremacists who were intimidating Black voters, and the division's work remains urgent 65 years later amid a surge of hate crimes.

Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed officials in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania, asking for communications with or involving former President Donald Trump, his campaign aides and a list of allies involved in his efforts to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The Biden administration is actively searching for ways to safeguard abortion access for millions of women.

As a businessman and president, Donald Trump faced a litany of lawsuits and criminal investigations yet emerged from the legal scrutiny time and again with his public and political standing largely intact.

The U.S. Justice Department has received a federal judge’s approval to carry out its proposal to improve the precarious water system in Mississippi’s capital city.

The prosecutor named as special counsel to oversee investigations related to former President Donald Trump has a long career confronting public corruption and war crimes.

Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president’s son.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has named a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate and aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.

Donald Trump has officially declared himself a candidate for president, but that won’t shield him from the same criminal investigations that confront him as an ordinary citizen.

Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion showed up at the conservative Federalist Society’s black-tie dinner marking its 40th anniversary.

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is investigating the top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, prompted by U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins’ appearance at a political fundraiser featuring first lady Jill Biden.

Two suspected Chinese intelligence officers have been charged with attempting to obstruct the U.S. criminal investigation and prosecution of Chinese tech giant Huawei.

The sheriff in metropolitan Phoenix says he’s stepped up security around ballot drop boxes after a series of incidents involving people keeping watch on the boxes and taking video of voters after they were apparently inspired by lies about the 2020 election.

Justice Elena Kagan says “time will tell” whether the Supreme Court can get back to “finding common ground” after a term in which the court’s six conservatives and three liberals split over major issues including abortion and gun rights.

The Biden administration has announced a round of criminal charges and sanctions related to a complicated scheme to procure military technologies from U.S. manufacturers and illegally supply them to Russia for its war in Ukraine.

Former President Donald Trump once predicted that a special prosecutor appointed during his administration would uncover “the crime of the century” — a conspiracy to sink his 2016 campaign.

A U.S. attorney general during President Jimmy Carter’s administration, Benjamin R.

In an extraordinary step, the House Jan. 6 committee has voted unanimously to subpoena former President Donald Trump – a final effort to get the full story of the Capitol insurrection as the panel wraps up its work by the end of the year.

The Biden administration is putting forth seven new Justice Department and judicial nominations covering three U.S. attorney’s offices in Texas and other senior posts.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene once was shunned as a political pariah for her extremist rhetoric.