President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced his nomination of federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court position left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia a month ago. Obama spoke Wednesday morning in the White House Rose Garden. "This is not a responsibility that I take lightly," he said, adding that he spoke with a wide group of people ranging from advocacy groups to the Senate Judiciary Committee in his search for a new justice. He said Garland is well-known in Democratic and Republican circles for his "decency, honesty, integrity (and) even-handedness." "He's shown a...