In 2016, the American Bar Assn. couldn’t say enough good things about Merrick Garland, then the chief judge of the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and President Obama ...

However, Ron Klain, Biden’s incoming chief of staff, pushed for Garland. Klain argued that the former federal judge’s reputation for impartiality and fairness would help restore confidence in a ...

A federal judge criticizes the Justice Department for failing to show evidence of racial discrimination in the Louisville Police Department.

Attorney General nominee Judge Merrick Garland speaks during an event with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Thursday ...

Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) asked Gorsuch about Judge Merrick Garland, whom President Barack Obama nominated to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat last year. Republicans, who control the Senate ...

Garland has used his platform to undo much of ... or refusal to curtail it and restoring wide discretion for immigration judges to administratively close cases. On July 1, Garland imposed a ...

A federal judge sentenced a Florida dentist to two years in prison with credit for time served after his arrest in June.

Garland defended Clarke and said in a rare show of annoyance: “Senator, I’m a pretty good judge of what an anti-Semite is.” Garland has said a critical point of his career was in 1995 ...