His father, Cyril Garland (1915–2000), headed Garland Advertising, a small business run out of the family home. His mother Shirley ( née Horwitz 1925–2016) was a director of volunteer services at Chicago's Council for Jewish Elderly (now called CJE SeniorLife). He grew up in the north Chicago border suburb of Lincolnwood. Merrick Brian Garland was born on November 13, 1952, in Chicago. He was confirmed by the Senate in a 70–30 vote, and took office in March of that same year. President Joe Biden nominated Garland as U.S. Eventually, President Donald Trump, a Republican, nominated Neil Gorsuch to the vacant seat, and the Republican Senate majority confirmed him. Garland's nomination lasted 293 days (the longest to date), and it expired on January 3, 2017, at the end of the 114th Congress. The unprecedented refusal of a Senate majority to consider a Supreme Court nomination was highly controversial. However, the Republican Senate majority refused to hold a hearing or vote on his nomination. 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. Court of Appeals in 1997, and he served as its chief judge from 2013 to 2020. President Bill Clinton appointed Garland to the D.C. 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. 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 by President Barack Obama in 2016, but his confirmation was effectively blocked by the Republican-led Senate.Ī native of the Chicago area, Garland attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review.
He previously served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021. Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist who is the 86th and current United States attorney general.
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