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6 Apr 2017, 9:30 pm
The Editorial Board asserts that the Court “is devolving into a nakedly partisan tool,” and assigns the blame largely to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), alleging that “he deeply degraded the nominating process” by refusing to hold a hearing for Judge Merrick Garland, who President Obama appointed to the Court. [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 5:04 am
Here are some tidbits from UnderneathTheirRobes: (a) after clerking for Big Pimpin’ Feeder Judge Merrick Garland, Danielle Gray worked on the policy staff of Barack Obama’s Senate campaign, then joined the Washington office of O’Melveny & Myers (her current place of employment); (b) originally from Long Island, she went down south to Duke… [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
”Few can forget Mitch McConnell’s refusal, as then-Senate majority leader in March 2016, to hold any hearing at all, much less a Senate vote, on President Obama’s Court nomination of Merrick Garland eight months before the 2016 election. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 12:00 pm
Circuit Judge Merrick Garland. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 11:25 am
In New York Magazine, John Heilemann makes the case for the appointment of Judge Merrick Garland of the District of Columbia Circuit. [read post]
5 Sep 2023, 11:35 am
The former Jorge Mario Bergoglio, after all, adopted his official "name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi ... because he was especially concerned for the well-being of the poor. [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 10:09 am
And the earlier-vintage claim that the IRS "targeted conservatives" at the direction of the Obama White House is in the repeat-it-until-you-believe-it Hall of Fame.And just for one last golden oldie, there was Mitch McConnell's pre-Trumpian lie about "the Biden rule" (which did not exist) to justify refusing even to hold a hearing on President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to an open Supreme Court seat. [read post]
3 May 2017, 9:01 pm
”The Democratic leadership pressed forward, hoping to convince nine Republicans to vote for Garland. [read post]
10 Jul 2015, 7:39 am
Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. [read post]
10 Apr 2017, 1:20 pm
It is reminiscent of March 16, 2016, when President Barack Obama announced Chief Judge Merrick Garland as his nominee to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 2:51 am
DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS – LEAKED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS Jack Teixeira, 21, a Massachusetts Air National Guard member, was arrested by the FBI yesterday in connection with the leaked intelligence reports, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 1:22 am
White House Said to Have Short List Ready for Justice Stevens' Slot The National Law Journal The White House appears ready to move quickly on a Supreme Court nominee should Justice John Paul Stevens decide to retire before the end of the term, with the short list of candidates reportedly including Solicitor General Elena Kagan, appeals court Judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 10:47 am
” Schumer argued that because McConnell delayed the nomination of Merrick Garland in an election year in 2016, he should do the same this year and wait until after the midterm elections to confirm Kennedy’s replacement. [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 10:54 am
Since Goldberg and Fortas, thirteen of sixteen Justices have been former appellate judges, and last week President Barack Obama nominated another, Judge Merrick Garland of the D.C. [read post]
27 May 2024, 3:30 pm
The closest amendment to passage, with 71 votes, said that a Supreme Court nominee would automatically become a Justice if the Senate did not hold a hearing or a vote, a response to the Senate’s obstruction of Merrick Garland’s nomination in 2016. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm
The problem for Portman is that the constitutional text is very much not “always connected with removal from office,” because one of the two key clauses says that “Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States. [read post]
22 Dec 2023, 12:30 pm
Responding to a spike in reported incidents involving harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff, Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2021 issues a one-page memo to various units in the DOJ instructing staff to investigate the problem and discuss strategies. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 6:15 pm
The Republicans’ strategy seems likely to prove successful; if so, it will have thwarted the general shift to the left by the court that almost certainly would have occurred if Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. [read post]
27 Aug 2022, 5:43 am
More than two weeks have passed since the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and removed an array of classified documents and presidential records that it maintains were being unlawfully held on the premises. [read post]
3 Sep 2021, 5:01 am
However, Texas had been routinely honoring detainers for years. [read post]
