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Merrick Garland is Biden’s choice for Attorney General. The announcement by the Attorney General, along with other senior leaders of the Justice Department, is expected to be made as soon as possible on Thursday as Biden moves closer to filling the remaining seats in his cabinet before assuming power on 20 January.
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Jan 08, 2021 · Merrick Garland delivers remarks after being nominated U.S. attorney general by President-elect Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 7, 2021. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Office | Nominee | Assumed office |
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— Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legal Policy) | Hampton Dellinger | November 1, 2021 (Confirmed October 28, 2021, 53–37) |
— Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legislative Affairs) | Carlos Uriarte | Announced May 3, 2022 |
Merrick Garland | |
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Preceded by | Abner J. Mikva |
Succeeded by | Ketanji Brown Jackson |
Personal details | |
Born | Merrick Brian Garland November 13, 1952 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
United States Attorney General | |
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Member of | Cabinet National Security Council |
Reports to | President of the United States |
Seat | Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building Washington, D.C. |
Appointer | President of the United States with United States Senate advice and consent |
Office and current official | Salary |
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Attorney General of New York Letitia James | |
New York Secretary of State Robert Rodriguez | |
New York Public Service Commission James Alesi | $127,000 |
New York Commissioner of Agriculture Richard A. Ball | $120,800 |
The role of attorney general remains the biggest outstanding position in the Cabinet yet to be named by President-elect Joe Biden.
Americans who went to the polls on Election Day didn't actually select the President directly.
Mr Garland, a former federal prosecutor, was nominated by former Democratic president Barack Obama as a supreme court justice in 2016 after the death of the conservative judge Antonin Scalia.
Mr Garland said: “Ensuring the rule of law and making the promise of equal justice under law real are the great principles upon which the department of justice was founded, and for which it must always stand.
Merrick Garland delivers remarks after being nominated U.S. attorney general by President-elect Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 7, 2021. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images.
That effort to right a previous wrong to Garland is understandable but not necessarily wise: McConnell got to fill Scalia's seat with arch-conservative Neil Gorsuch, then 49, and having Garland serve a couple of years as Biden's attorney general is a revenge with which McConnell can presumably live quite comfortably.
Biden making Merrick Garland attorney general isn't the best idea. It also isn't the worst one. Biden making Merrick Garland attorney general isn't the best idea. It also isn't the worst one. The nominee is much like the president-elect: competent but boring with a few glaring flaws from the perspective of progressives.
It also seems highly likely that Biden was influenced by Garland's Supreme Court nomination: Giving Garland the nod for attorney general is understandable, both as a reward to Garland for enduring public disappointment and humiliation in service to the Obama administration's agenda and as a way to troll McConnell, who has lost his power to stop Garland's confirmation.
Nobody is owed a seat on the Supreme Court; Garland didn't need to be made whole. He should have been chosen as Biden's attorney general if he was the best choice on the merits, and here there are real concerns. As many liberal skeptics noted when he was a Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Garland is a former prosecutor whose record on civil liberties ...
After all, it is assuredly not a coincidence that Garland's nomination was made clear only after the Democratic Party had apparently regained control of the Senate by sweeping Georgia's Senate runoffs ; the race for Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler's seat was called in favor of Raphael Warnock on Tuesday night, and the close race for the seat held until recently by Republican Sen. David Perdue was trending well in favor of challenger Jon Ossoff before it was called in Ossoff's favor during the violence at the Capitol.
Ultimately, Garland is the Joe Biden of nominees, really: bland and competent without being particularly interesting or progressive, all of which is infinitely preferable to Donald Trump and his minions but behind the curve of the Democratic coalition ideologically.
Biden tapped D.C. Circuit Judge Merrick Garland to be his attorney general on Jan. 7.
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