Merrick Garland

US Attorney General Merrick Garland said he personally approved a decision to search former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence and is asking a judge ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland said he personally authorized the request to search Mar-a-Lago on Monday.

A list of the inventory that agents took from the property would also be released. “Every day they protect the American people from violent crime, terrorism and other threats to their safety while safeguarding our civil rights,” Garland said. The archives subsequently asked the Justice Department to investigate. Garland’s statement Thursday marks his first public appearance or comment since agents executed the warrant at Mar-a-Lago Club, taking about a dozen boxes of material after opening a safe and entering a padlocked storage area. "That said, the former President should have an opportunity to respond to this Motion and lodge objections, including with regards to any ‘legitimate privacy interests’ or the potential for other ‘injury’ if these materials are made public.” He also could publicly release the warrant himself.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that the Justice Department had filed a motion to unseal the search warrant and property receipt from a ...

“The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing,” Justice Department attorneys wrote in their motion. “Under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing.” The men and women of the FBI and the Justice Department are dedicated, patriotic public servants,” Garland said. Garland is a Chicago native who attended Harvard University for both undergraduate studies and law school. Mar-a-Lago document inquiry is one of many. These are sickening comments that put the lives of patriotic public servants at risk," Cheney tweeted on Thursday, shortly after Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke at the Justice Department about the search. "If Trump objects, it will be a really tricky line to walk." They do so at great personal sacrifice and risk to themselves. They want it CANCELED!" New York's attorney general is investigating the Trump Organization's business practices. Surprisingly, left area in a relative mess. However, FBI Director Christopher Wray was appointed by Trump while he was president.

The Justice Department had been under pressure to explain why the FBI raid the Florida home of former President Donald Trump.

Reinhart directed the Justice Department to inform him by 3 p.m. Friday of Trump's answer. That motion was lodged in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where Mar-a-Lago is located. Crazy." "They asked us to put an additional lock on a certain area — DONE! Everything was fine, better than that of most previous Presidents, and then, out of nowhere and with no warning, Mar-a-Lago was raided at 6:30 in the morning, by VERY large numbers of agents and even 'safecrackers.' They got way ahead of themselves. "The department does not take such a decision lightly," he said. - Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department has asked a judge to unseal a search warrant used by the FBI to raid the Florida home of former President Donald Trump three days earlier.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will make a statement to the media on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. ET (1830 GMT), the Justice Department said in a statement, ...

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Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke Thursday after FBI agents searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, ...

"All Americans are rightly entitled to the even-handed application of the law, to due process of the law and to the presumption of innocence," Garland said. "They protect the American people from violent crime, terrorism and other threats to their safety while safeguarding our civil rights," Garland said. "This is all I can say right now," Garland concluded, rebuffing questions from journalists in the room. "Much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. The American people deserve to know why." As Trump has many times before, he and his allies cast the federal investigation as a partisan sham. He would "not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked." "Under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing." I am honored to work alongside them." Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor," he said. (He denies wrongdoing in each.) "Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy.

The Justice Department really needs to explain to the American people why the F.B.I. searched former President Donald Trump's home, given the precedent- ...

His vision of voluntary, free family planning as a powerful tool to advance gender equity, protect the environment and improve human well-being is one that we at Population Balance wish more world leaders would embrace. In the healing circles I’ve facilitated for women, we call that holding space. That is the news the country needs to focus on. In the mid-1980s, my daughters and I loved talking with the therapy chatbot Eliza on our Commodore 64. The list of reasons for it to avoid public comment at this stage is longer than the list of reasons for it to do the opposite. I hope I’m wrong. To correct misperceptions, the D.O.J. needs to explain its rationale. And all we hear about is … Donald Trump. Mr. Khardori cites “exceptions” to the prosecutorial rule about not commenting on ongoing investigations, but none of them apply particularly well here. To the Editor: To the Editor: To the Editor:

Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to speak at the Justice Department on Thursday, just days after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump's ...

He said he personally approved the search warrant, a step he said was part of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year. Some Republican allies of Trump have called for the FBI to be defunded. "Federal law, longstanding department rules and our ethical obligations prevent me from providing further details as to the basis of the search at this time.” The Justice Department, in its new filing, also said that disclosing information about it now would not harm the court's functions. That’s especially true in the case of search warrants, where supporting court papers are routinely kept secret as the investigation proceeds. It's unclear at this point how much information would be included in the documents, if made public, or if they would encompass an FBI affidavit that would presumably lay out a detailed factual basis for the search.

US attorney general cites 'substantial public interest in this matter' in announcing the request.

The fury of the Republican response has prompted fears that FBI agents and officials could be placed in danger. The motion recounts that the search was carried out quietly with little public attention, until “later that same day, former President Trump issued a public statement acknowledging the execution of the warrant. That search was part of an investigation into whether Trump took classified records from the White House.

For the last 72 hours, since the FBI conducted a search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, the former President has spouted any number of claims about what ...

He is overseeing an ongoing investigation into the handling of classified documents by the former President of the United States. Trump is popping off on Truth Social, his social media website. But Honig noted that there is sometimes an attachment appended to the search warrant that outlines the specific charges that the department is investigating in the warrant. Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear or favor."

In filing to unseal the search warrant used at Mar-a-Lago — and emphasizing that former president Donald Trump could object — the Justice Department put the ...

Whatever the case, this seems to put the Justice Department on significantly firmer ground than in 2016. And unless this were to progress to a criminal case, it’s not clear we would ever learn what’s in the warrant. On Thursday, Garland effectively pulled Trump into the corner with him. On the other hand, Trump could just let it all come out — something he hasn’t appeared apt to do thus far. That Trump could object is a matter of course. In a court filing, it emphasized that Trump could object.

The attorney general also revealed that he personally approved the decision to ask a court for a search warrant in the politically charged case.

Under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing." "Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor. Garland also revealed that he personally approved the decision to ask a court for a search warrant in the politically charged case, which appears to be centered on Trump's removal of classified documents from the White House.

The attorney general announced Thursday that he's asked a judge to unseal the FBI's search warrant for Mar-a-Lago, which the former president, ...

(In its request, the DOJ also asked for two attachments to the warrant to be unsealed, as well as the property receipt for the items the agents removed.) Then there’s the fact that Trump and his attorneys are now in the position of having to decide if they should fight the document being unsealed, which would make it look like they have something to hide, or just let it happen, which they probably also don’t want to do. (If they did, they would have released it already.) Sadly for the former guy, even if his lawyers decide to argue against the warrant being unsealed, the judge reportedly could decide to do so anyway. One of the funniest aspects of the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s house, insofar as there’s anything funny about a one-man crime wave having served as the president of the United States, is the matter of “the warrant.” In their rush to blindly defend Mr. Mar-a-Lago, many of Trump‘s allies have spent the week demanding that the government make public the legal document the feds obtained in order to search the Palm Beach residence, suggesting that the failure to do so is evidence the government has nothing on the former president and the raid was a craven attempt to politically persecute him.

Conservatives slammed U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's address to the nation about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, which he admitted he approved.

And Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s son, Andrew Giuliani, tweeted, "Merrick Garland LYING to the American people! Multiple times," wrote The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis, in response to Zipperer's point. He’s clearly feeling the heat." Conservative Twitter users expressed frustration that Garland gave no real details, nor was willing to answer any questions about the nature of the raid. He also made a point to defend the FBI and the DOJ from critics who have been claiming that they have been turned into political weapons against their political enemies. "I will not stand by silently while the [FBI's] integrity is unfairly attacked...

After Trump allies demanded he reveal the warrant behind the search of Mar-a-Lago, the attorney general moved to do just that. Now, the ball's in Trump's ...

A number of prominent Trump allies and lawmakers had demanded that the department do so. Top DOJ officials said that the “public characterizations” of the FBI search by Trump and his attorneys effectively waived the need for the department’s typical confidentiality. That has created a sense of dog-catches-the-car whiplash for Trump and his team, who now must decide whether to permit the quick release of the search warrant — which may point to specific crimes that are under investigation — and a receipt detailing the items seized by FBI agents during the search. “My attorneys and representatives were cooperating fully, and very good relationships had been established,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social website. “That said, the former President should have an opportunity to respond to this Motion and lodge objections, including with regards to any ‘legitimate privacy interests’ or the potential for other ‘injury’ if these materials are made public.” Now, the ball’s in Trump’s court.

The U.S. Justice Department asked a judge on Thursday to make public the warrant that authorized an FBI search of Donald Trump's Florida home, ...

It also warned agents to be aware of their surroundings and potential protesters. After fleeing onto Interstate 71, he was spotted by a trooper and fired shots as the trooper pursued him, said Dennis. FBI agents visited Trump's property earlier this year to investigate boxes in a locked storage room, according to a person familiar with the visit. But it came after Trump himself announced the search on Monday night, alleging that it was an act of political retribution by Democratic President Joe Biden. In a statement on his Truth social network, Trump said: "My attorneys and representatives were -fully, and very good relationships had been established. His confirmation was highly unusual.

Since Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort was searched by FBI agents, Republicans have relentlessly attacked the bureau, the Justice Department and Attorney ...

And so, we should all agree there is a public interest in seeing the warrant unsealed. In this case, there is a strong public interest in understanding why the government conducted the search. Were Trump to call for the warrant to remain sealed, you might think that the Republicans would cease their conspiracy-theorizing. There is a more responsible, alternate way for Republicans to react. “I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter,” Garland confirmed. Garland did not say in his public statement why he signed off on the warrant.

Newsweek is facing criticism for inaccurately reporting that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland was not aware of the FBI's raid of former President ...

‘Did Attorney General Merrick Garland personally sign off on this action?’ Answer: Likely not, as FBI has procedures for clearing this sort of thing, but he’d likely be notified," he said. Trump also was deposed by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), who campaigned on prosecuting Trump and called his presidency "illegitimate," in a civil suit earlier this week. He insists, though, that Garland had no prior knowledge of the date and time of the specific raid, nor was he asked to approve it [emphasis added]." Both conservative allies and even some liberal critics have criticized the FBI's raid as politically motivated. Donald Trump has been the target of various investigations, political and legal, since first declaring his candidacy for president in 2015. That strikes me as kinda remarkable."