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 ...

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.

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.

WASHINGTON — With just a few days left until President-elect Donald Trump takes office, outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland said his farewell to a department he has guided through a ...

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We look at what the Department of Justice has and hasn't done on war crimes under outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Social media users tore into U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland as video on X, formerly Twitter, showed him leaving the Department of Justice building for the last time on Friday.

In his farewell address, an emotional Attorney General Merrick Garland sought to encourage an embattled Department of Justice facing uncertainty and to unabashedly defend his tenure and their work. "I know that you have faced unfounded attacks simply for ...