On Wednesday, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, who is currently the chief judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington D.C., to be the 113th Supreme Court Justice of the United States.
Garland attended Harvard University on a scholarship, where he graduated summa cum laude, and then attended Harvard Law School. Garland has served on the D.C. Circuit Court for 19 years and led the investigation and case against Timothy McVeigh, an Oklahoma City bomber. He has the most federal judicial experience in the history of Supreme Court justice nominees.
Although a CNN/ORC survey shows that a majority of all Parties want Senate Republicans to hold hearings on Judge Garland, Senate Republicans want to wait until a new president is elected to have a vote on any Supreme Court justice nominee.
According to CNN, President Obama said, “I have selected a nominee who 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, evenhandedness and excellence.”