Fate, Domestic Terrorism and the Nomination of Merrick Garland

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🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Five years ago, Judge Merrick B. Garland became a high-profile casualty of Washington’s political dysfunction. President Barack Obama selected him to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but Senate Republicans blocked his nomination. In the process, Mr. Garland became known for the job he didn’t get. Now, after being nominated by the Biden administration to become the next attorney general, Mr. Garland is finding professional qualifications under scrutiny once again. In light of the attack on the Capitol, we explore how his career leading investigations into domestic terrorism prepared him for his Senate confirmation hearing.

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0:25.6	From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:32.6	This is Daily.
0:40.6	Today during his confirmation hearings this week, President Biden's nominee for Attorney
0:46.7	General, Merrick Garland, said that investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol and the
0:53.5	forces behind it would be his number one priority.
0:58.4	My colleague, Mark Liebovich, on how a pivotal moment in Garland's career prepared him
1:04.7	to confront domestic extremism.
1:14.0	It's Thursday, February 25th.
1:21.3	Mark the name Merrick Garland has become synonymous with, to put it bluntly, partisan road kill
1:30.4	in Washington.
1:31.4	Right?
1:32.4	An Obama Supreme Court nominee who is never given so much as a hearing for that nomination.
1:39.2	Correct.
1:40.2	There are certain figures in Washington who become known by something kind of notorious
1:46.1	that happens to them, sometimes having nothing to do with their own talents and skills
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