59K views · 1.5K reactions | "The president nominates the Attorney General to be the lawyer — not for any individual, but for the people of the United States," Judge Merrick Garland says at his confirmation hearing. https://abcn.ws/37DeKi2 | ABC News Live | Facebook

9.6K views · 253 reactions | Judge Merrick Garland says the federal death penalty gives him "great pause" because of the racial disparity and number of exonerations that come from death penalty cases. https://abcn.ws/37DeKi2 | ABC World News Tonight with David Muir | Facebook

Merrick Garland gets emotional as he accepts President Obama's nomination to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. http://cnn.it/1R2vz4j "This is the greatest honor of my life," Garland says. | CNN Politics

71K views · 2.3K reactions | Merrick Garland got emotional at the podium when he accepted President Obama's nomination for the Supreme Court vacancy. | USA TODAY | Facebook