WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House has confirmed that Merrick Garland as been nominated to take the place of late Chief Justice Antonin Scalia. Garland, 63, was special assistant to the attorney ...

"I chose a serious man and exemplary judge, Merrick Garland," President Obama said from the Rose Garden on March 16. Find the NLJ's continuing coverage here. “I chose a serious man and exemplary judge ...

WASHINGTON — The battle for control of the Supreme Court now has a name: Merrick Garland. President Obama named the federal appeals court judge to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, ...

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 ...

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz blasted Attorney General Merrick Garland for a Department of Justice memo that directed the DOJ to assist ...