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President Obama has chosen Merrick Garland to replace Supreme Court Justice Scalia
CNN.com ^ | March 16 2016

Posted on 03/16/2016 7:04:20 AM PDT by rdl6989

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1 posted on 03/16/2016 7:04:20 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

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


2 posted on 03/16/2016 7:05:42 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Fox Business reporting same.


3 posted on 03/16/2016 7:05:56 AM PDT by CedarDave (Marco Rubio: the "Chameleon Candidate" - Changes positions faster than the reptile changes colors)
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To: rdl6989

Harvard Law, baby.
He’s got the secret handshake!


4 posted on 03/16/2016 7:05:58 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: rdl6989
President Obama has chosen NOMINATED Merrick Garland to replace Supreme Court Justice Scalia

Without the Senate's approval, nobody gets "chosen".

5 posted on 03/16/2016 7:06:33 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: rdl6989

Orin Hatch likes them, so they must be conservative /sarc


6 posted on 03/16/2016 7:07:09 AM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: Jim 0216

CNN just changed the wording in their banner.


7 posted on 03/16/2016 7:07:43 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

The answer is NO.


8 posted on 03/16/2016 7:08:02 AM PDT by crusader71
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To: rdl6989

Start contacting senate republicans, don’t trust anything from Obama.


9 posted on 03/16/2016 7:09:02 AM PDT by FreedomGuru (Leave my gluten alone hands off)
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To: rdl6989

He could choose Mother Theresa, Billy Graham, or Saint Francis, and it wouldn’t matter.

It should be left to the people to decide in this upcoming election. Pick a new president and a new senate, and then we’ll know that we know that the true will of the people was involved in any radical realignment of the Supreme Court.


10 posted on 03/16/2016 7:09:05 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Prayer for Victory is the ONLY way to support the troops!)
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Looks like he is an anti Second Amendment type:http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/432716/moderates-are-not-so-moderate-merrick-garland


11 posted on 03/16/2016 7:09:13 AM PDT by Truth29
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On September 6, 1995, President Bill Clinton nominated Garland to the D.C. Circuit seat vacated by Abner J. Mikva.

Garland received a hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on December 1, 1995.[8] However, his nomination languished under the Republican-controlled Senate until after the 1996 election. At the time of his nomination, many Republican senators cited as their reason for objecting to his nomination the fact that they did not believe that the D.C. Circuit needed an additional judge.[citation needed]

After winning the 1996 presidential election, Clinton renominated Garland on January 7, 1997.[9] Garland was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 19, 1997 in a 76-23 vote and received his commission on March 20.[10] He became Chief Judge on February 12, 2013.


12 posted on 03/16/2016 7:09:20 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: rdl6989

Lovely. Another Illinois Clintonite.


13 posted on 03/16/2016 7:09:21 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog ( "Radical" Muslims will kill you. "Moderates" will thank allah for the radicals who kill you.)
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Pro gun-control. Served under Brenner.

No thank you.

14 posted on 03/16/2016 7:09:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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He can join Harriet Myers in the “not quite” column of history.


15 posted on 03/16/2016 7:09:46 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: rdl6989

He choose the so-called moderate of the three.


16 posted on 03/16/2016 7:09:51 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: nascarnation

Soon to be added to the asterisk list of high court history.


17 posted on 03/16/2016 7:09:54 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: nascarnation
Harvard Law, baby.

Haven't they done enough damage to this country as well as Yale grads?

18 posted on 03/16/2016 7:10:17 AM PDT by JohnG45
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To: FreedomGuru
Start contacting senate republicans, don’t trust anything from Obama.

Are you kidding? I don't even trust senate Republicans.

19 posted on 03/16/2016 7:10:44 AM PDT by fwdude
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As if Ginsburg, Kagen and Breyer weren’t enough liberals, Obama wants yet another communist, self loathing Jew on the Supreme Court.

Talk about over representation.


20 posted on 03/16/2016 7:11:00 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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