{"id":20657,"date":"2016-03-16T13:28:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T20:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20657"},"modified":"2016-03-16T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T22:58:45","slug":"scotus-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/16\/scotus-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Barack Obama has nominated Merrick Garland to take the place of deceased and descended Antonin “Sturmbannführer” Scalia.  I’ll need more time to research, before I can offer an opinion oh his choice, but I can tell you this:  Garland would be an improvement over Scalia, because it would be virtually impossible to be as bad.  I can also tell you that he deserves a fair vote, whether I like him or not.  Needless to say Republicans are apoplectic.<\/font><\/p>\n

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President Obama on Wednesday nominated Merrick Garland to serve on the Supreme Court, setting up a protracted political fight with Republicans who have vowed to block any candidate picked by Obama in his final year in office.<\/p>\n

Garland, 63, is a longtime Washington lawyer and jurist who is chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Considered a moderate, Garland is widely respected in the D.C. legal community and was also a finalist for the first two Supreme Court vacancies Obama filled.<\/p>\n

In announcing his choice in the White House Rose Garden, Obama said he followed “a rigorous and comprehensive process” and that he reached out to members of both parties, legal associations and advocacy groups to gauge opinions from “across the spectrum.”<\/p>\n

He said Garland “is widely recognized not only as one of America’s sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency, modesty, integrity, even-handedness and excellence.” …<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s a clip of the announcement.<\/font><\/p>\n