The Senate confirmed Merrick Garland on Wednesday to be the next U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote, placing the widely-respected, veteran judge in the post as President Joe Biden has ...

I owe Merrick Garland an apology. When it was announced that Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court (See Mitch McConnell as to why that didn’t happen) would now be President Biden’s pick for attorney ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to move forward the nomination of Merrick Garland for attorney general. The committee voted 15 to seven at a meeting Monday afternoon. The final vote now moves to ...

The confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland — the moderate, well-liked federal appellate judge who was infamously denied a Supreme Court seat by Senate Republicans — did not exactly provide the kind ...

Merrick Garland is set to make Supreme Court history this week for waiting the longest to be confirmed for the job to Justice. President Obama nominated the Harvard grad back in March, after justice ...

Gregory Diskant, a lawyer and member of the national governing board of Common Cause, recently made a novel suggestion for breaking through the gridlock on President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge ...

To hear Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer tell it, Democrats intend to block the confirmation of any justice President-elect Trump nominates to the Supreme Court. They’ll inherit guardianship of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate has voted 70-30 to confirm Merrick Garland as the nation’s attorney general. With Wednesday’s bipartisan vote, the federal appeals court judge will head the ...