The fast-moving legal battle over the release of special counsel Jack Smith's final report played out days before Trump's second-term inauguration.

former Attorney General Merrick Garland rescinded the federal government’s death penalty protocol. He did so after a review by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy raised serious ...

The filing comes amid a legal fight to stop Attorney General Merrick Garland from releasing the ... off an ongoing appeal over the special counsel’s office powers to other attorneys at the ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland has maneuvered President-elect Donald Trump into a precarious legal position ... to release the full volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report related to ...

Attorney General Merrick ... D-Md., Garland wrote that he had reviewed both volumes of Smith's report. "As I have made clear regarding every Special Counsel who has serve since I took office ...

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith has turned over to Attorney General Merrick ... any need nor legal basis for an injunction" on the release of the report because Garland intends to ...