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Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the 86th United States attorney general from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021.
WASHINGTON (AP) — During hearings on Merrick Garland's nomination to be President Joe Biden's attorney general, the longtime federal appeals court judge told senators in 2021 that he hoped to “turn down the volume” on the public discourse about the Justice Department and return to the days when the agency was not the “center of partisan disagreement.”
So intent was Garland on restoring the department’s independence and integrity — after Trump, in his first term, openly sought to weaponize it against his enemies — that the attorney general ...
Social media users tore into U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland as video on X, formerly Twitter, showed him leaving the Department of Justice building for the last time on Friday.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers a farewell address to Justice Department employees and guests, including FBI Director Christopher Wray in the Great Hall at the Robert F. Kennedy ...
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, preparing to step down from his post, will urge career civil servants at the Justice Department on Thursday not to let unfair criticism prevent them from ...
Fletcher began his career as a judicial clerk for Judge Merrick Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He then clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States. [4] From 2011 to 2013, Fletcher served as an associate White House Counsel in the Barack Obama administration.
TikTok, Inc. v. Garland, 604 U.S. ___ (2025), was a United States Supreme Court landmark case brought by ByteDance Ltd. and TikTok on the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA) based on the Freedom of Speech Clause of the First Amendment, the Bill of Attainder Clause of Article One, Section Nine, and the Due Process Clause and ...