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    Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as the 86th United States attorney general. He previously served...
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    On March 16, 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Antonin...
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    prosecuting war crimes in the Kosovo War. In November 2022, attorney general Merrick Garland appointed Smith an independent special counsel, responsible for overseeing...
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  • Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch Jr. to conduct an initial investigation. On January 12, 2023, Garland appointed Robert...
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    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...
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    Senator Cory Booker, President Biden's United States Attorney General, Merrick Garland, stated during February 2021 congressional testimony that he would...
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    member of the president's Cabinet. The current attorney general is Merrick Garland, who has served since March 2021. The Justice Department contains most...
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    named special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe by Attorney General Merrick Garland. On February 14, 2024, he indicted a former FBI informant with lying...
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  • Fortas, founder — Supreme Court Justice, Yale Law School professor Merrick Garland — Attorney General of the United States, former U.S. Court of Appeals...
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    Attorney General, which includes executive staff and several deputies. Merrick Garland has been the United States attorney general since March 11, 2021. The...
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    President Obama's judicial nominees, including Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. During the Trump administration, the Senate Republican majority under...
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    Mar-a-Lago, Paladino said on a radio show that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland "probably should be executed." When questioned by the show's host,...
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  • 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...
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    to the Senate. Biden nominated Jackson to the seat vacated by Judge Merrick Garland, who had stepped down to become U.S. Attorney General. The American...
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  • endangerment of Taylor's neighbors at the state-level, Attorney-General Merrick Garland announced the Department of Justice was charging Hankison with the...
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    majority's prior refusal to take up President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy. This led the Republican majority to change the...
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    7 First Motion for Preliminary Injunction" (PDF), Keith Raniere v. Merrick Garland (Court Filing), no. 4:22-cv-00212, Docket 14, Attachment 5, D.A.Z....
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  • charges by a jury in Kentucky v. Hankison. On August 4, Attorney-General Merrick Garland announced the Department of Justice was charging Hankison with the...
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    guns'". NBC News. VanDerStok Opinion, "Jennifer VanDerStok et. al. v. Merrick Garland et. al. 1:15-cv-00372-RP (W.D. Tex.)" (PDF). June 30, 2023. Retrieved...
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    Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of David Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District...
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    7 First Motion for Preliminary Injunction" (PDF), Keith Raniere v. Merrick Garland (Court Filing), no. 4:22-cv-00212, Docket 14, Attachment 5, D.A.Z....
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    Gibson Dunn, a national law firm. On January 12, 2023, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur to oversee the United States Department of Justice's...
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    executions have been performed. On July 1, 2021, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland placed a moratorium on all federal executions pending review of policy...
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    days away and Senate Republicans had refused to hold hearings for Merrick Garland during an election year in 2016. The next month, the U.S. Senate voted...
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  • Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur special counsel to investigate Joe Biden's storage of classified materials. On August 11, 2023 Merrick Garland appointed...
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    search warrant application was authorized by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and approved by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, following a criminal...
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    converted to Catholicism. He is a second cousin of US Attorney-General Merrick Garland. Branstad received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the...
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    was executed on January 16, 2021. On July 1, 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that a moratorium on the federal death penalty was being...
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    Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were confirmed as justices, while Merrick Garland was denied hearings or a vote from the Republican-majority Senate....
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    the United States after the death of Antonin Scalia; Obama nominated Merrick Garland instead. Srinivasan was born in 1967 in Chandigarh, India, to Brahmin...
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