Joe Biden to name Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general, sources say
President-elect Joe Biden has selected Merrick Garland, a federal Appeals Court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court, as his attorney general, two people familiar with the selection process said Wednesday.
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Posted: Jan 06, 2021 1:52 PM ET | Last Updated: January 6
Judge Merrick Garland, shown in 2017, is U.S. president-elect Joe Biden s pick for attorney general, sources say. Garland is an experienced judge who held senior positions at the Justice Department decades ago.(Andrew Harnik/The Associated Press)
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Shortly before 4 a.m., after numerous objections from Republicans asserting baseless allegations of voter fraud and the ransacking of the Capitol by a mob of Trump-supporting insurrectionists, Congress certified the results of the 2020 presidential election, officially ratifying Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the next President and Vice-President of the United States.
Both the Senate and the House resumed the certification process shortly after 8 p.m., after getting the all-clear from the Sergeant-at-Arms that it was safe to return to their chambers, which they had hastily vacated some six hours early after rioters stormed the Capitol (see below). Picking up where they left off, the Senate and House resumed debate over objections to the vote count in Arizona, which Biden won by a narrow margin of roughly 11,000 votes.
Biden to name Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general FILE - In this July 22, 2019, file photo, Merrick Garland pays his respects for the late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court in Washington. President-elect Joe Biden is set to name Garland as Attorney General. (Source: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) By Associated Press | January 6, 2021 at 11:19 AM CST - Updated January 8 at 3:34 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Joe Biden has selected Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court, as his attorney general, two people familiar with the selection process said Wednesday.
Biden to name judge Merrick Garland as attorney general
By Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo - Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Joe Biden has selected Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court, as his attorney general, two people familiar with the selection process said Wednesday.
In picking Garland, Biden is turning to an experienced judge who held senior positions at the Justice Department decades ago, including as a supervisor of the prosecution of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The pick will force Senate Republicans to contend with the nomination of someone they spurned in 2016 refusing even to hold hearings when a Supreme Court vacancy arose but Biden may be banking on Garland’s credentials and reputation for moderation to ensure confirmation.
Updated Jan 06, 2021 | 19:41 IST
Control over the Senate will come as a huge boost for the Democrat president-elect as he seeks to push through key legislation on which he campaigned. Georgia s election workers check-in, sort, and signature verify absentee ballots for the state s U.S. Senate runoff elections. | Photo Credit: AP
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