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Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) 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 Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 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 time of his nomination, Garland was the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Social media users tore into U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland as video on X, formerly Twitter, showed him leaving the Department of Justice building for the last time on Friday.
By Sarah N. Lynch. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, preparing to step down from his post, will urge career civil servants at the Justice Department on Thursday not to ...
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Office Nominee Assumed office Left office — Attorney General. Merrick Garland [2] March 11, 2021 (Confirmed March 10, 2021, 70–30) [RC 1] — — Deputy Attorney General. Lisa Monaco: April 21, 2021 (Confirmed April 20, 2021, 98–2) [RC 2] — — Associate Attorney General. Ben Mizer: February 2, 2024 [3] – Vanita Gupta: April 22, 2021 ...
Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland's uprightness rescued the Department of Justice from Donald Trump's grip. But then he handed it over again.
TikTok, Inc. v. Garland, 604 U.S. ___ (2025), was a United States Supreme Court case brought by ByteDance Ltd. and TikTok on the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA) based on the Freedom of Speech Clause of the First Amendment, the Bill of Attainder Clause of Article One, Section Nine, and the Due Process Clause and Takings ...