Mar 10, 2021 · And on October 26, about a week before Election Day, she was confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate. McConnell said he voted to confirm Garland's nomination as attorney general "because of...
Feb 04, 2021 · Garland was confirmed on March 10, 2021, by a vote of 70-30. Summary of Senate vote on Merrick Garland's nomination for attorney general (March 10, 2021) Party
Mar 11, 2021 · Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden's nominee for attorney general was confirmed Wednesday by the U.S. Senate. His confirmation comes nearly five years to the day since he was nominated by President Barack Obama to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mar 10, 2021 · Garland’s confirmation came with more bipartisan support than Trump’s nominees received. Sessions was confirmed in a 52-47 vote, and Attorney General William P. Barr was confirmed in a 54-45 vote.
Merrick Garland | |
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Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Abner J. Mikva |
Succeeded by | Ketanji Brown Jackson |
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The Senate confirmed him on March 10, 2021, by a vote of 70-30. The Biden Transition said in a press release, "A consensus-building voice, Judge Garland has worked under Democratic and Republican administrations.
The confirmation process includes several rounds of investigation and review, beginning with the submission of a personal financial disclosure report and a background check. The nominee is then evaluated in a committee hearing, which allows for a close examination of the nominee and his or her views on public policy.
Merrick Garland speaks during his attorney general confirmation hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Feb. 22. A new chapter of Merrick Garland's long career in the law has opened after the Senate voted to pave the way for him to serve as attorney general.
Merrick Garland speaks during his attorney general confirmation hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Feb. 22. A new chapter of Merrick Garland's long career in the law has opened after the Senate voted to pave the way for him to serve as attorney general. The 70-30 vote for his confirmation comes five years ...
During an earlier stint at the Justice Department, in 1995, Garland traveled to Oklahoma City after a bombing at the federal building there killed 168 people. His colleagues credited him with helping to build a meticulous trail of evidence that helped convict Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirator, Terry Nichols. That experience, as well as his cool head during a later standoff with the Montana Freemen, could help inform his approach to the current wave of extremism.
Garland, who would be the 86th attorney general, has pledged to return the Justice Department to normal order after four years of tumult under former President Donald Trump.
Biden said his administration would work to promote racial justice and eliminate systemic sources of discrimination in the justice system.
Lisa Monaco, who's in line to become second in command at the Justice Department, won praise from Republican lawmakers. They had more pointed questions for civil rights lawyer Vanita Gupta, who would be the first woman of color to serve as associate attorney general.
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Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as the 86th United States attorney general since March 2021. He served as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021.
A native of the Chicago area, Garland attended Harvard Universityfor his underg…
Merrick Brian Garland was born on November 13, 1952, in Chicago. He grew up in the northern Chicago suburb of Lincolnwood. His mother Shirley (née Horwitz; 1925–2016) was a director of volunteer services at Chicago's Council for Jewish Elderly (now called CJE SeniorLife). His father, Cyril Garland (1915–2000), headed Garland Advertising, a small business run out of the family home. Garland was raised in Conservative Judaism, the family name having been changed from …
After graduating from law school, Garland spent two years as a judicial law clerk, first for Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1977 to 1978 and then for Justice William Brennan at the U.S. Supreme Court from 1978 to 1979. After his clerkships, Garland spent two years as a special assistant to U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti.
After the Carter administration ended in 1981, Garland entered private practice at the law firm Arn…
Garland served as co-chair of the administrative law section of the District of Columbia Bar from 1991 to 1994. He is also a member of the American Law Institute.
In 2003, Garland was elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers, completing the unexpired term of Deval Patrick, who had stepped down from the board. Garlan…
Garland was considered twice to fill vacated seats on the United States Supreme Court in 2009 and 2010, before finally being nominated in 2016 by President Barack Obama for the seat left vacant by the death of conservative Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
In 2009, following the announcement by Justice David Souterthat he would reti…
President-elect Joe Biden selected Garland for the position of United States attorney general, with news of the selection coming on January 6, 2021. He was formally nominated by Biden on January 20, after Biden took office. In Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings, Garland vowed to oversee vigorous prosecution of those who stormed the United States Capitol, and other domestic extremists, drawing on his experience prosecuting the perpetrators of the Oklahoma Ci…
Garland and his wife, Lynn, were married at the Harvard Club in Manhattan in September 1987. Lynn Rosenman Garland's grandfather, Samuel Irving Rosenman, was a justice of the New York Supreme Court (a trial-level court) and a special counsel to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. She graduated from the Brearley School in Manhattan and cum laude from Harvard University and received a Master of Science degree in operations management from the MIT Slo…
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• ——— (1987). "Antitrust and Federalism: A Response to Professor Wiley". The Yale Law Journal. 96 (6): 1291–1295. doi:10.2307/796386. JSTOR 796386.