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Garland's nomination expired on January 3, 2017, at the end of the 114th Congress, after languishing 293 days. [10] [82] Garland's nomination was the 15th nomination to the Supreme Court to lapse at the end of a session of Congress. [83] Barack Obama was succeeded by Donald Trump on January 20, 2017.
After a period of 293 days, Garland's nomination expired on January 3, 2017, at the end of the 114th Congress, the 15th nomination to the Supreme Court to lapse at the end of a session of Congress. [ 102 ] [ 103 ] It was the longest pending period of a Supreme Court nominee in history , far exceeding the 125-day delay faced by the ultimately ...
During his final year in office, Obama had an opportunity to fill a third Supreme Court vacancy, following the February 13, 2016, death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. On March 16, 2016, he nominated Merrick Garland, the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to the Court. [3]
WASHINGTON (AP) — During hearings on Merrick Garland's nomination to be President Joe Biden's attorney general, the longtime federal appeals court judge told senators in 2021 that he hoped to “turn down the volume” on the public discourse about the Justice Department and return to the days when the agency was not the “center of partisan disagreement.”
The announcement came after President Biden’s intended replacement for Wynn’s seat withdrew his nomination ... Merrick Garland, whom Obama had nominated to serve on the Supreme Court in 2016 ...
The president's selection of Garland could sway some Republicans drawn to his center-left views in a court that lost one of its most vocal conservatives. Who is Merrick Garland? Meet President ...
Following the death of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Antonin Scalia in February 2016, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court. At the time of his nomination, Garland was the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Garland, 63, has been a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 1997.