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Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as the 86th United States attorney general since 2021. He previously served as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021.
Garland's nomination expired on January 3, 2017, at the end of the 114th Congress, after languishing 293 days. [10] [82] Garland's nomination was the 15th nomination to the Supreme Court to lapse at the end of a session of Congress. [83] Barack Obama was succeeded by Donald Trump on January 20, 2017.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday denounced "dangerous" and "outrageous" attacks on Justice Department prosecutors and personnel and sought to reassure them that he has ...
Attorney General Merrick Garland sparred with Florida congressman Matt Gaetz at a contentious hearing of the GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday which quickly turned to the recent ...
Garland wanted the entire appeals court to reconsider a decision that had invalidated a handgun ban in Washington, DC. Merrick Garland's most famous vote was part of a huge Second Amendment case ...
Attorney General Merrick Garland is slamming a GOP-led vote to hold him in contempt of Congress, calling it an attack on the Department of Justice that was done for partisan political reasons.
After law school, Srinivasan was a law clerk for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1995 to 1996. He did a one-year fellowship in the Department of Justice's Office of the Solicitor General from 1996 to 1997, then clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor from 1997 to 1998.
The House voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview in his classified documents case ...