This commentary analyzes the prospects for Senate action — sooner or later — on President Barack Obama’s nomination of federal appeals court Judge Merrick B. Garland to succeed Justice Scalia. The ...

In picking Judge Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, President Barack Obama is choosing a nominee well suited to put Republicans on the spot, even if he doesn’t thrill members of the ...

Cruz and Booker argued for about 9 minutes at the top of the hearing before Cruz turned to introduce the committee's witnesses.

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Friday pressed the special counsel team prosecuting Donald Trump to explain Attorney General Merrick Garland’s role in overseeing ...

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration from Enacting Harvard Foreign Student Ban During a Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General Merrick Garland refused to take ...

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case against Trump, ruling that Garland’s appointment of a special counsel to the case was unconstitutional. In an interview ...

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 ...

But Garland didn’t commit to examining the defendants’ cases, and instead argued that their lawyers have the right to argue before a judge that their 6th Amendment rights have been violated.

“In response to these threats, Attorney General Garland merely stated, ‘The Justice Department will not tolerate violence or threats of violence against judges or any other public servants at ...