Merrick Garland, the appellate judge whom President Barack Obama has nominated to the Supreme Court, is a “moderate.” Of that we are assured by all the best people writing in all the usual ...

“Merrick Garland has not, I think ... where presidents have often searched for Supreme Court justices, when he was nominated by President Barack Obama in March 2016. But in a stunning display ...

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Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report: More Abortions, More Taxpayer Dollars, and Fewer Health Services President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court demonstrates a desire ...

At least half of the front-line attorneys in the solicitor general’s office plan to leave as Trump’s emergency requests pile up at the high court, people familiar with the situation said.

When President Obama nominated Merrick Garland in March to fill the vacancy left by late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, the White House released a lengthy biographical document extolling ...

President Joe Biden has privately expressed regret over his decision to appoint Merrick Garland as attorney general ... Others point to the role of the Supreme Court and a Trump-appointed judge in ...

Since 1845, the Senate has taken no action on only five Supreme Court nominees, the latest being Merrick Garland in 2016. Obama, a liberal Democrat, selected Garland to fill a vacancy created by ...

The Justice Department on Thursday sued Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.” The lawsuit, filed in ...

Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) asked Gorsuch about Judge Merrick Garland, whom President Barack Obama nominated to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat last year. Republicans, who control the Senate ...

Biden is not only asserting executive privilege as a sitting president, he has also been cleared of criminal prosecution and ...