Garland, a once-beloved appellate judge whose nomination to the Supreme Court was thwarted by a Republican Senate, took the reins of the department in 2021. He began in the role by pledging ...

In 2016, the American Bar Assn. couldn’t say enough good things about Merrick Garland, then the chief judge of the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and President Obama ...

However, Ron Klain, Biden’s incoming chief of staff, pushed for Garland. Klain argued that the former federal judge’s reputation for impartiality and fairness would help restore confidence in a ...

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Garland was the chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, when he was nominated by President Barack Obama for the high court in March 2016.

Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) asked Gorsuch about Judge Merrick Garland, whom President Barack Obama nominated to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat last year. Republicans, who control the Senate ...

I have to caveat, though, that Judge Cannon went further than I thought she would. That is, I was convinced she would (and should) hold that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of ...

Garland, 63, is currently the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate majority leader, has said Republican senators will not ...

A federal judge criticizes the Justice Department for failing to show evidence of racial discrimination in the Louisville Police Department.