MERRICK GARLAND

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is lambasting the director of the beleaguered federal prison system, saying he has “no intention of reforming the institution.”.

Federal prosecutors say a Pittsburgh synagogue massacre defendant’s statements at the scene and at a hospital should be allowed at trial because concerns about public safety were a valid reason to question him even after he'd asked for an attorney.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection has voted to pursue contempt charges against Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who refused to answer the committee’s questions.

A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection will vote Wednesday to hold Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official, in contempt of Congress.

Nations are meeting in Geneva from Monday to Wednesday to discuss an international agreement setting out how to handle the next pandemic -- which experts fear is only a matter of time.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is blasting Sen. Ted Cruz for suggesting that Fauci be investigated for statements he made about COVID-19.

Photo Illustration by Kristen Hazzard/The Daily Beast/GettyThe Department of Justice announced this week that it would crack down on airline passengers who throw tantrums. Now, if Attorney General Merrick Garland would only get around to doing something about people who plot the overthrow of our government and a former president who's serially obstructed justice and abused power we might be getting someplace.Not that in-flight safety isn’t important. It is. Just like it’s important to arrest and

As millions of Americans hit the skies for Thanksgiving Day travel, the Justice Department announced they are cracking down on criminal behavior of airline passengers.

The Justice Department says it will prosecute passengers who assault airline crew members, or endanger the safety of other passengers on flights.

The Justice Department says it will prosecute passengers who assault airline crew members, or endanger the safety of other passengers on flights.

Attorney General Merrick Garland directed U.S. attorneys to prioritize the prosecution of federal crimes on commercial aircrafts.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is directing U.S. attorneys across the nation to swiftly prioritize prosecution of federal crimes that happen on commercial flights.

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit seeking to block a major U.S. sugar manufacturer from acquiring its rival.

The Justice Department is giving $139 million to police departments across the U.S. as part of a grant program that would bring on more than 1,000 new officers.

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding Attorney General Merrick Garland immediately fire the director of the beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons.

An Associated Press investigation has found that more than 100 federal Bureau of Prisons employees have been arrested, convicted or sentenced in criminal cases since the start of 2019.

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally to former President Donald Trump, has been indicted on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the House committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Judges, national-security officials, and Liz Cheney say that the effort must proceed.

The committee has sent out subpoenas in recent weeks to aides and allies of former president Donald Trump as part of its investigation into the attack as well as Trump’s attempts to overturn the election results.

The attacks shut down a meat processing plant and an internet software provider earlier this year.

A suspected Ukrainian hacker has been arrested and charged in the United States in connection with a string of costly ransomware attacks, including one that snarled businesses around the globe on the Fourth of July weekend.

Two suspected hackers accused of ransomware attacks resulting in 5,000 infections have been arrested as part of a global cybercrime crackdown, Europol announced Monday. Officials say the attacks, linked to the ransomware gang known as REvil, yielded about half a million euros in ransom payments. REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, has been linked in recent months to ransomware targeting the world's largest meat processor, JBS SA, as well as a Fourth of July weekend attack that snarled businesses around the world.

A lawsuit over new voting laws in Texas is bringing the state into court once again with the Biden administration.

The Biden administration is suing Texas over new voting rules that outlasted a summer of dramatic protests by Democrats.

The Texas senator then tweeted a clip from his interview containing his false claim about Merrick Garland, but not the fact-check that followed.

The U.S. Marshals Service says suspects being held in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection do not need to be removed from the District of Columbia jail despite their complaints about conditions there.

The Justice Department is suing to block a $2.2 billion book publishing deal that would have reshaped the industry.

The coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the labor market have pushed many prison staffing systems into crisis.

While stumping for a Florida state representative, Gaetz proposed two different explosives that could be used to destroy Capitol metal detectors.

The National School Boards Association previously asked the Biden administration for help combating threats and violence against school staff.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has defended a Justice Department memo aimed at combating threats and violence against teachers, administrators and other school officials.

Attorney General Merrick Garland defends a memo at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about combating threats against school officials nationwide.

Attorney General Merrick Garland defends a memo at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about combating threats against school officials nationwide.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is defending a memo aimed at combating threats against school officials nationwide.

Fox NewsDuring a fiery Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at one point defended parents throwing up Nazi salutes at school board meetings.Cruz, along with other Republicans, lambasted Attorney General Merrick Garland for directing the Justice Department this month to investigate the rise in violent threats against educators. That rise has coincided with right-wing media fueling fury over mask mandates and so-called critical race theory.Referencing a letter writ

Garland testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee for an oversight hearing.

Whether or not the Attorney General prosecutes the former White House strategist, polls suggest that provocation is proving more politically effective than probity.

The original data published in August had a technical error that inadvertently excluded some data from Ohio

Funeral services for former Secretary of State Colin Powell are set for November 5. While he is known for his landmark achievements, his one-on-one ability to connect with people is coming to light. WUSATV Mike Valerio reports.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the DOJ is addressing modern-day redlining practices by making more robust use of fair lending authorities.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the DOJ is addressing modern-day redlining practices by making more robust use of fair lending authorities.

As it turns out, the Department of Justice has emphatically pushed back against contempt of Congress referrals related to the executive branch.

The Justice Department has announced a cross-government effort to investigate and prosecute redlining, the practice of banks discriminating against racial minorities or certain neighborhoods.

A landmark synagogue building in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood remains dormant three years after it was the scene of a rampage that left 11 people dead in what was America’s deadliest anti-Semitic attack.

The House has voted to hold Steve Bannon, a longtime ally and aide to former President Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., tweeted out a video that appeared to show House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., sleeping during a congressional hearing Thursday.

Earlier this month garland asked the FBI to investigate the recent rise in threats against school board members and school personnel.

Earlier this month garland asked the FBI to investigate the recent rise in threats against school board members and school personnel.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers he's working to keep the Justice Department out of politics after four years of chaos during the Trump presidency.

Steve Bannon is facing a contempt charge from Congress after he refused to cooperate with a House committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

House intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says he “vehemently” disagrees with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s failure so far to aggressively investigate former President Donald Trump.

SALINE, MI - Saline Area Schools’ display of a Black Lives Matter flag, promotion of culturally responsive teaching and adoption of policies for transgender students are part of a federal lawsuit alleging parents are being silenced in speaking critically of such topics. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday, Oct. 19, on behalf of parents from Saline and Loudoun County, Virginia, against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who recently directed federal authorities to have strategy sessions with law enforcement to address increasing threats targeting school board members, teachers and other school employees.

The congressional committee tasked with investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has been ramping up its efforts in recent weeks.

A federal appeals court is once again allowing Texas to continue banning most abortions.

A congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has set a vote to recommend criminal contempt charges against former White House aide Steve Bannon after he defied the panel’s subpoena.

The Biden administration says it will turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court in another attempt to halt a Texas law that has banned most abortions since September.

A federal appeals court is temporarily allowing the nation’s toughest abortion law to resume in Texas.

At one event, riled-up conservatives got so out of hand that the board chair halted the proceedings while the police cleared the room.

The author of “The Orchid Thief” on her fascination with how we communicate across species. And Jane Mayer asks the Attorney General about prosecuting the January 6th rioters.

Abortions have resumed in at least six Texas clinics after a federal judge halted the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. Amy Hagstrom Miller is the president of Whole Woman's Health, which has four clinics in Texas.

The Biden administration is expected on Friday to launch a new security arrangement with Mexico that tackles the most violent drug cartels and migrant smugglers while jettisoning the cornerstone of the last decade of U.S.-Mexico security partnership.

Officials from Mexico and the United States are developing a new framework for their governments’ security relationship that is more “holistic” in addressing crime and will tackle a broader range of issues than the previous initiative.

Cotton sent a letter to Garland on Wednesday, pummeling the attorney general with questions about his widely-panned memo that has a growing list of lawmakers speaking out.

The Connecticut attorney general is calling for "serious review and reform" at TikTok after challenges on the app inspire vandalism and violence.

When Democrat Terry McAuliffe said during the Virginia governor’s debate last week that he doesn’t believe “parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” his opponent pounced.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is directing federal authorities to meet with local law enforcement about the spike in violent threats against school board members, teachers and others.

The order by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland comes after a school board federation asked President Joe Biden for help.

Partnership between the two U.S. airlines reduces competition, according to federal antitrust enforcers.

The Justice Department is suing to stop American Airlines and JetBlue from coordinating their flights in the Northeast.

The committee formerly known as Team Telecom pointed to "foreign participation" in a letter it sent to the head of the Federal Communications Commission.

Garland announced the changes in a speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

A group of Stanford University professors has asked the Justice Department to stop looking for Chinese spies at U.S. universities, joining an effort by human rights groups to end a Trump administration program they said caused racial profiling and was terrorizing some scientists.

Highlights of this day in history: Israel and the Palestinians sign a major accord; President George W. Bush takes responsibility for the federal response to Hurricane Katrina; Attica prison uprising ends; Rapper Tupac Shakur dies. (Sept.13)

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is expressing concerns that the public may increasingly see the court as a partisan institution.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will testify in front of two committees about the Biden administration's handling of ending the war in Afghanistan. Alex Ward, a national security reporter for Politico, joins CBSN's Lana Zak with insight into what we can expect to hear.

Californians will head to the polls Tuesday to cast votes in a recall election that will determine whether or not Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom keeps his seat. One of Newsom's Republican challengers, former San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss why he believes public health mandates should be determined at the local level, and how he thinks he can bring "common sense" back to Sacramento. Then, CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett discusses his interview with GOP frontrunner Larry Elder.

The unusual legal strategy used to ban most abortions in Texas is already increasingly being employed in Republican-led states to target pornography, LGBT rights and other hot-button cultural issues.

The unusual legal strategy used to ban most abortions in Texas is already increasingly being employed in Republican-led states to target pornography, LGBT rights and other hot-button cultural issues. While private residents filing lawsuits is a fixture of some arenas like environmental law, some warn that expanding it and applying it to new areas could have a boomerang effect if Democrats were to use it on issues like gun control. When Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the Department of Justice would sue over the Texas law, he said it could become a model “for action in other areas, by other states, and with respect to other constitutional rights and protections.”

The head of the Louisiana State Police says he wants to know why 67% of his agency’s uses of force in recent years have been directed at Black people.

Abortion clinics in neighboring Oklahoma and nearby Kansas say they're still seeing a high volume of patients from Texas as a new state law there banning most abortions remains in effect.

The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.”.

The DOJ argues that the law infringes on the constitutional rights of women and violates the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade.

Attorney General Merrick Garland called the Texas law a "statutory scheme" that violates Supreme Court precedent.

The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.”.

The Supreme Court, stacked 6-3 with conservative justices had rejected a bid to block the controversial Texas abortion law from taking effect.

Foes of the new Texas law that bans most abortions have been looking to the Democratic-run federal government to swoop in and knock down the most restrictive abortion law in effect in the country.

Foes of the new Texas law that bans most abortions have been looking to the Democratic-run federal government to swoop in and knock down the most restrictive abortion law in effect in the country.

The Justice Department says it will not tolerate violence against anyone who is trying to obtain an abortion in Texas as federal officials explore options to challenge a new state law that bans most abortions.

Justice Dept. officials have been in contact with U.S. attorneys in Texas and the FBI field offices there to discuss enforcing federal provisions.

Texas now bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.

The first set of federal agents working for the Justice Department began wearing body cameras under a new policy that reversed a yearslong ban.

Some people charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and their Republican allies claim the Justice Department is treating them harshly because of their political views.

A group of more than 100 former and current prosecutors and law enforcement officials is calling on President Joe Biden to prioritize criminal justice reform.

A group of Republican lawmakers penned a letter to Merrick Garland and Xavier Becerra claiming that the pair had violated federal conscience-protection laws.

President Joe Biden has nominated acting Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar to be his administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer on a permanent basis.

The attorney for the family of a homeless Black Muslim man who died while being restrained by officers says his case may have helped prompt the U.S. Justice Department this week to launch a widespread civil rights probe into the Phoenix police force.

The Justice Department is launching a widespread probe into the police force in Phoenix to examine whether officers have been using excessive force and abusing people experiencing homelessness.

President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are putting judges on federal trial and appellate courts at a much faster clip than Biden’s recent predecessors.

The Biden administration sued Texas to prevent state troopers from stopping vehicles carrying migrants on grounds that they may spread COVID-19, warning that the practice would exacerbate problems amid high levels of crossings on the state’s border with Mexico.

President Joe Biden is nominating eight new leaders for U.S. attorney positions, including in the office overseeing the prosecutions of defendants in the Capitol insurrection.