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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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
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To: rdl6989
Interesting factoid.

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.

 

21 posted on 03/16/2016 7:11:34 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: rdl6989

Its a bait and switch.
Once the GOPe takes the bait, Thugster will pull it and then change the name to Holder.


22 posted on 03/16/2016 7:12:08 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Bratch

No way, forget it, absolutely not.


23 posted on 03/16/2016 7:12:44 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Who?


24 posted on 03/16/2016 7:15:48 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Conservatives are to the Republican party what blacks are to the Democrat Party" - Awgie)
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To: Bratch
One of Garland's mentors, according to a July 6, 1995 Los Angeles Times article, was then-Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick.

That's enough for me. Rejected.

NEXT!


25 posted on 03/16/2016 7:15:51 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackoLivesMatter)
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To: rdl6989

A white guy. Who would have thought?


26 posted on 03/16/2016 7:16:25 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Flavious_Maximus

He’s half Protestant.


27 posted on 03/16/2016 7:16:44 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: rdl6989

Mitch McTurtle to flip in 3, 2, 1 .....


28 posted on 03/16/2016 7:16:50 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Conservatives are to the Republican party what blacks are to the Democrat Party" - Awgie)
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To: Bratch

Jamie Gorelick... a name that was at the center of so many, many scandals, treason and cover-ups.


29 posted on 03/16/2016 7:16:58 AM PDT by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: rdl6989

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/


30 posted on 03/16/2016 7:18:56 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: rdl6989

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/


31 posted on 03/16/2016 7:18:57 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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"Are you kidding? I don't even trust senate Republicans."

LOL. Well said my friend, well said.

32 posted on 03/16/2016 7:19:05 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: rdl6989

Lame Duck Quacking


33 posted on 03/16/2016 7:19:29 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth -- Mike Tyson)
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To: Bratch

Can’t you just imagine her mentoring!


34 posted on 03/16/2016 7:19:50 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: rdl6989

The answer is: no.


35 posted on 03/16/2016 7:21:06 AM PDT by Ray76 (Judge Roy Moore for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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To: Ray76

McConnell better not cave on this.


36 posted on 03/16/2016 7:21:54 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

No more Ivy League cabal


37 posted on 03/16/2016 7:22:27 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: GraceG
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/16/3760727/who-is-merrick-garland/

Yep, you can count on one thing in life, and that's Orrin Hatch can't keep his trap shut. He simply MUST weigh in and pontificate on every issue.

From the article I've linked above, Hatch's comments from LAST WEEK:

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.”

38 posted on 03/16/2016 7:22:46 AM PDT by TontoKowalski
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To: rdl6989

That was the ‘safe’ choice.


39 posted on 03/16/2016 7:22:52 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: rdl6989

I think you run the clock through November.
Then if a Dem wins POTUS, push him through.


40 posted on 03/16/2016 7:23:10 AM PDT by nascarnation
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