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Jan 06, 2021 · January 6, 2021 2:03pm. President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Judge Merrick Garland as his attorney general. Biden is picking Garland over former Democratic Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama and former...
Jan 06, 2021 · Merrick Garland Is To Be Joe Biden's Nominee For Attorney General : Biden Transition Updates The federal appeals judge was spurned when Democrats supported him as a Supreme Court justice. Now the...
Feb 22, 2021 · Judge Merrick Garland, President Biden's nominee for attorney general, goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing Monday. Fox News U.S.
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"My very first job after serving as a judicial law clerk was to work as a special assistant to then-Attorney General Ben Civiletti, " Garland continued, reflecting on his career coming full circle.
President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly chosen federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland as his attorney general. Seen here, then Vice President Joe Biden congratulates Judge Merrick Garland after he was nominated by President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court in the Rose Garden at the White House, March 16, 2016 in Washington, DC.
Garland's time at the Justice Department earned him plaudits in Washington, with President Bill Clinton in 1995 nominating him for a position on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the second most influential court in the country.
Federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland arrives with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as he is introduced as Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court during an announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, March 16, 2016. 4/9 SLIDES © BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP/Getty Images.
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Merrick Garland Is To Be Joe Biden's Nominee For Attorney General : Biden Transition Updates The federal appeals judge was spurned when Democrats supported him as a Supreme Court justice. Now the incoming Biden administration wants him to lead what it calls reform at the Justice Department.
Kristen Clarke, who has led the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, is Biden's choice to run the Civil Rights Division. Garland oversaw the prosecution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and gained significant management experience inside the sprawling department in the 1990s.
Allies praised Garland's steady temperament and his collegiality, two qualities that could help settle the workforce. At the court, Garland also became known for his focus on transparency, including efforts to make argument audio available to the public.
Merrick Garland came to national attention in 2016 when President Barack Obama nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court. Senate Republicans denied Garland even a hearing for the post. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption. toggle caption. Susan Walsh/AP.
Despite his qualifications and a history of support from conservatives, Senate Republicans denied Garland even a hearing for the post, and he quietly returned to his job on what's considered the second most important court in the nation.
Merrick Garland came to national attention in 2016 when President Barack Obama nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court. Senate Republicans denied Garland even a hearing for the post.
Garland oversaw the prosecution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and gained significant management experience inside the sprawling department in the 1990s. He also was a career prosecutor inside the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., where, among other things, he investigated and helped bring to justice the city's mayor, Marion Barry.
While most of his career has been in public service, Garland did work in the private sector for a relatively short time at the law firm Arnold & Porter, where he eventually became a partner.
Judge Merrick Garland, President Biden 's nominee for attorney general, goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing Monday. Garland is expected to take questions on a variety of topics: the independence of the Justice Department, the Hunter Biden investigation, the Andrew Cuomo nursing home controversy, ...
Garland, 68, is a veteran of the legal community and Justice Department.
Monaco spent 15 years in the Justice Department during the Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama administrations. Her selection indicates that Biden wants to pair Garland with a trusted ally and veteran of the department who has years of national security and intelligence experience.
During Garland's tenure, the D.C. Circuit reviewed cases arising from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. In al Odah v. United States (2003), a panel that included Garland unanimously held that federal courts could not hear challenges from Guantanamo detainees. In July 2011, Garland wrote for the unanimous panel when it rejected Guantanamo detainee Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alawi 's petition for habeas corpus. In Parhat v. Gates (2008), Garland wrote for a panel that unanimously overturned the Combatant Status Review Tribunal 's determination that a captured Uyghur was an enemy combatant. In Saleh v. Titan Corp. (2009), Garland dissented from the court's holding that former Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison could not sue private military contractors who participated in torture and prisoner abuse. Garland wrote that the suit should be allowed to proceed because "no act of Congress and no judicial precedent" immunized the contractors from tort liability, the Federal Tort Claims Act specifically excludes contractors, and tort liability would not interfere with government operations.
Garland's nomination lasted 293 days (the longest to date by far), and it expired on January 3, 2017, at the end of the 114th Congress. Eventually, President Donald Trump, a Republican, nominated and appointed Neil Gorsuch to the vacant seat. In March 2021, President Joe Biden appointed Garland as Attorney General.
Early life and education. 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) was a director of volunteer services at Chicago 's Council for Jewish Elderly (now called CJE SeniorLife).
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, nominated Garland to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in March 2016 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Antonin Scalia. However, the Republican Senate majority refused to hold a hearing or vote on his nomination.
Garland is considered a judicial moderate and a centrist. Garland has been described by Nina Totenberg and Carrie Johnson of NPR as "a moderate liberal, with a definite pro-prosecution bent in criminal cases". Tom Goldstein, the publisher of SCOTUSblog, wrote in 2010 that "Judge Garland's record demonstrates that he is essentially the model, neutral judge. He is acknowledged by all to be brilliant. His opinions avoid unnecessary, sweeping pronouncements." Garland has a reputation for collegiality and his opinions rarely draw a dissent. As of 2016, Garland had written just fifteen dissents in his two decades on the court, fewer than his colleague Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote some 17 dissents over the previous decade.
Garland attended Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois, where he was president of the student council, acted in theatrical productions, and was a member of the debate team. He graduated in 1970 as the class valedictorian. Garland was also a Presidential Scholar and National Merit Scholar.
In 2009, following the announcement by Justice David Souter that he would retire, Garland was considered as one of nine finalists for the post, which ultimately went to Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge of the Second Circuit.
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Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American attorney 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) was a director of volunteer services at Chicago's Council for Jewish Elderly (now called CJE SeniorLife). His father, Cyril Garland, 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 Garfinkel several ge…
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 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.