In an interview, the chairman makes clear that the select committee means business—but acknowledges there are limits on how much power the body has.

Congressman Adam Schiff wants the Justice Department to pursue prosecutions with a fervor that the attorney general has never possessed.

The draft report, while long on critiques of court-packing, failed to address the root of the high court’s predicament—the confirmation process itself.

The January 6 commission’s latest subpoena target was willing to become Trump’s attorney general and help him invalidate the election. He spent a career preparing for that moment.

After the Supreme Court refused to block the new law, Attorney General Merrick Garland sued the state on constitutional grounds.

The Republican Party will use the justice’s sentimental beliefs about democracy against him.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is suing the state over its voter suppression law—the administration’s first major response to the Republicans’ nationwide assault on elections.

The former president and his enablers abused their power to spy on lawmakers. What will Congress do about it?

The attorney general wants to restore the DOJ’s independence, to the chagrin of progressives who want a more forceful response to the Trump era.

In the name of returning the DOJ to “normal,” the attorney general has protected an abnormal president from accountability.

The former president is learning that the old, responsibility-evading tricks he used as a private-sector scammer don’t work once you’ve held public office.

An in-depth interview with the Democratic senator about Supreme Court reform, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley’s culpability in the Capitol riot, and the importance of investigating the previous administration

Biden’s attorney general is neither an ideologue nor a partisan, but a consensus-builder. How will he wield his power in this historic, politically charged moment?

The attorney general has initiated a larger probe of Derek Chauvin’s colleagues, but there’s no quick fix for a broken system.

Vanita Gupta and Kristen Clarke are eminently qualified for senior positions in the Justice Department. So why are Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton painting these two nonwhite women as radicals?

He’s certainly qualified to be Biden’s attorney general—but that doesn’t mean he’ll do what’s necessary to prosecute Trump-era abuses and reform the Justice Department.

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland awakened a violent chapter in our history—and vowed to write a new one.

Biden has taken some critical first steps in making the Department of Justice more representative of America, but there’s more work to be done.

A costly fight over the number of Supreme Court justices could put a stop to any real hope for reform under Joe Biden.

The Democrats prefer to whine about Republican extremism rather than retaliate. If the party wins in November, nothing less than absolute ruthlessness will do.