He clerked for Brennan and is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland
Lovely. Another Illinois Clintonite.
From 1994 until his appointment as U.S. Circuit Judge, Judge Garland served as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, where his responsibilities included the supervision of the Oklahoma City bombing and UNABOM prosecutions. One of Garland's mentors, according to a July 6, 1995 Los Angeles Times article, was then-Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick.
Yet another “gift” from Orin:
“Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the longest serving Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, offered his own thoughts on who President Obama should nominate to fill the seat left open by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last week. “[Obama] could easily name Merrick Garland, who is a fine man,” Hatch told the conservative news site Newsmax, before adding that “he probably won’t do that because this appointment is about the election. So I’m pretty sure he’ll name someone the [liberal Democratic base] wants.”
On Wednesday, the president reportedly plans to call Hatch’s bluff. Multiple sources report that the president will announce his nomination of Garland, the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to fill Scalia’s seat.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/16/3760727/who-is-merrick-garland/
Yet another “gift” from Orin:
“Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the longest serving Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, offered his own thoughts on who President Obama should nominate to fill the seat left open by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last week. “[Obama] could easily name Merrick Garland, who is a fine man,” Hatch told the conservative news site Newsmax, before adding that “he probably won’t do that because this appointment is about the election. So I’m pretty sure he’ll name someone the [liberal Democratic base] wants.”
On Wednesday, the president reportedly plans to call Hatch’s bluff. Multiple sources report that the president will announce his nomination of Garland, the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to fill Scalia’s seat.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/16/3760727/who-is-merrick-garland/
Is there not a competent jurist outside Harvard Law? Is there not one Protestant in the country worthy of being appointed to the Supreme Court? This judge is part and parcel of the DC cocktail circuit. Establishment Uniparty judge to screw the people.
Guy wrote an opinion that terrorist detainees should be able to sue private contractors involved in their interrogations ... I guess for emotional distress...