With Donald Trump returning to the White House, Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Justice Department and urged its ongoing independence.
The Justice Department said Garland plans to release Jack Smith's report on Trump's 2020 election interference efforts.
Democratic lawmakers blamed the Department of Justice not bringing charges against President-elect Donald Trump sooner for assuring his election victory.
Within days of becoming attorney general, he assembled his deputies and told them to turn over every Trump rock. Blame a lumbering system—and an electorate that didn’t care.
A group of congresspeople suggested Garland could drop the charges against Trump's co-defendants if they stand in the way of releasing Smith's final report on the classified documents case
The report, released just days before Trump is to return to the White House, focuses fresh attention on his frantic but failed effort to cling to power in 2020.
Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to release Jack Smith's report on Trump's alleged election interference, but the timing remains uncertain.
The attempt to hold Donald Trump accountable for seeking to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election ended shortly after midnight on Tuesday with a whimper, as the United States Department of Justice posted online special counsel Jack Smith’s
Jack Smith resigned after submitting the final report of his investigation of Donald Trump over alleged 2020 election interference and retaining classified documents to AG Merrick Garland.
Merrick Garland wasted a year,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler said ahead of the fourth anniversary of the 2021 Capitol riot.
Democrats have begun blaming U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland for the 2024 election after claiming he waited too long to launch an investigation into President-elect Donald Trump. Garland ...
Festivities begin this weekend for President-elect Donald ... are urging Merrick Garland to take all necessary steps to release special counsel Jack Smith's report on Donald Trump's handling ...