The confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland — the moderate, well-liked federal appellate judge who was infamously denied a Supreme Court seat by Senate Republicans — did not exactly provide the kind ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s attorney general nominee, is vowing to prioritize civil rights and combating extremist violence. During his confirmation hearing Monday, the 68 ...

Senate Democrats are reliving the snub of Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, at the hearing of President Donald Trump's pick Monday.

Is Attorney General Merrick Garland‘s exclusive interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt a bombshell in which Garland practically bellows “LOCK HIM UP!” — or a meaningless collection of boilerplate that ...

This post was updated at 2:55 p.m. on March 16, 2016. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) called on Senate Republicans to hold a prompt confirmation vote on President Barack Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, ...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked the top officials at the Department of Justice and FBI on Wednesday to testify at a pair of summer hearings as part of Congress’s annual ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The last time Merrick Garland was nominated by the White House for a job, Republicans wouldn't even meet with him. Now, the once-snubbed Supreme Court pick will finally come before ...

However, people also admitted that they are not necessarily closely following the news of the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, a new Associated Press-GfK poll released Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON — A Republican senator said Tuesday she is “more convinced than ever” that there should be hearings on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee after meeting with Judge Merrick ...

Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to pay his first visit to a Republican, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, who belongs to a faction of Senate GOPers that have agreed ...