Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
In office February 12, 2013 – February 11, 2020
Preceded by
David B. Sentelle
Succeeded by
Sri Srinivasan
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
In office March 20, 1997 – March 11, 2021
Appointed by
Bill Clinton
Preceded by
Abner Mikva
Succeeded by
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Personal details
Born
Merrick Brian Garland
(1952-11-13) November 13, 1952 (age 71) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Political party
Independent
Spouse
Lynn Rosenman
(m. 1987)
Children
2
Education
Harvard University (BA, JD)
Signature
Merrick Garland's voice
Merrick Garland gives remarks on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks Recorded September 10, 2021
Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as the 86th United States attorney general. He previously served as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021. In 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Republican-led U.S. Senate effectively blocked Garland's appointment.
A native of the Chicago area, Garland attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He served as a law clerk to Judge Henry Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., and then practiced corporate litigation at Arnold & Porter, after which he worked as a federal prosecutor in the United States Department of Justice, where he supervised the investigation and prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombers. President Bill Clinton appointed Garland to the D.C. Court of Appeals in 1997, and he served as its chief judge from 2013 to 2020.
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, nominated Garland to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in March 2016 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Antonin Scalia. However, the Republican Senate majority refused to hold a hearing or vote on his nomination. The unprecedented refusal of a Senate majority to consider a Supreme Court nomination was highly controversial. Garland's nomination lasted 293 days (the longest to date), and it expired on January 3, 2017, at the end of the 114th Congress. Eventually, President Donald Trump, a Republican, nominated Neil Gorsuch to the vacant seat, and the Republican Senate majority confirmed him.
President Joe Biden nominated Garland as U.S. attorney general in January 2021. He was confirmed by the Senate in a 70–30 vote, and took office in March of that same year.
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days away and Senate Republicans had refused to hold hearings for MerrickGarland during an election year in 2016. The next month, the U.S. Senate voted...
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executions have been performed. On July 1, 2021, U.S. Attorney General MerrickGarland placed a moratorium on all federal executions pending review of policy...
the United States after the death of Antonin Scalia; Obama nominated MerrickGarland instead. Srinivasan was born in 1967 in Chandigarh, India, to Brahmin...
charges by a jury in Kentucky v. Hankison. On August 4, Attorney-General MerrickGarland announced the Department of Justice was charging Hankison with the...
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