With Donald Trump returning to the White House, Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Justice Department and urged its ongoing independence.

Republicans, and some Democrats, have blasted Biden's attorney general for his handling of Jack Smith's appointment and release of a report on Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden and members of his cabinet are delivering farewell speeches to thank those who served in the administration before handing it over to a new leaders.

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital.

The special counsel who brought criminal charges against Hunter Biden says the probes were “the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics.”

In a farewell speech to Justice Department staffers, outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appeared to rebuke attacks from President-elect Donald Trump and his allies who have "wrongly criticized" the department as politically motivated.

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