WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has denied a lawyer’s bid to get the Supreme Court to force the Senate to consider the high court nomination of Judge Merrick Garland. Roberts on Monday ...

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 ...

"I did not support taking up a nomination eight months before the 2016 election to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Justice Scalia," the Republican senator from Alaska said. "You stated a ...

Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday said his comments in 1992 as then-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee warning against election-year confirmation battles do not justify Senate Republicans' ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KGO) -- President Obama has nominated appeals court judge Merrick Garland to fill Justice Antonin Scalia's seat in the Supreme Court, setting up a showdown with Senate Republicans.

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, ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland defended his memo responding to threats aimed at school officials, pushing back on pointed criticism from Republicans at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate has voted 70-30 to confirm Merrick Garland as the nation’s attorney general. With Wednesday’s bipartisan vote, the federal appeals court judge will head the ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to release a report on the election-interference investigation into Donald Trump 'when permitted' by the courts.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate confirmed Merrick Garland on Wednesday as the next U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote, placing the widely respected, veteran judge in the post as President ...