Merrick Garland
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Merrick Brian Garland is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the 86th United States attorney general from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Ap
Official portrait, 2021
Garland in 2016 as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Garland with President Barack Obama in 2016
Garland is sworn in as Attorney General in March 2021.
On March 16, 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Antonin Scalia, who had died one month earlier. At the ti
Merrick Garland
…for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021. In 2016, the U.S. Senate refused to hold a confirmation hearing after President Barack Obama nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court. A native of the Chicago area, Garland attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the…
Garland with President Obama on March 17, 2016 shortly after his nomination was announced
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia
Garland meeting with Democratic U.S. Senator Al Franken
Merrick Garland with Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins