President Obama has chosen Merrick Garland to replace Supreme Court Justice Scalia

CNN.com ^ | March 16 2016

[Ancesthntr]

Let’s see:

1) Clerked for that uber-activist Brennan.

2) Nominated by Clinton previously.

3) Anti-gun as Hell.

4) Nominated by Obama.

Not just “No” but NO F’ING WAY!!!!!!

Dead. On. Arrival.

Elections have consequences, Barky!!! Ha, ha, ha, ha - you don’t like that concept so much when it turns around and takes a hunk out of your narrow ass, do you? Well, too damned bad.

[rdl6989]

Obama is speaking now.

[Beagle8U]

Merrick Garland is a radical Eco-twit!

http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/04/the-potential-nomination-of-merrick-garland/

[Beagle8U]

A anti-gun Eco-twit, horrible judge!

[Truth29]

"Anti 2nd Amendment NO!!!"

Agree, looking forward to what the GOA and the NRA have to say about this nomination.

[xzins]

Obama’s on TV whining and raging about the Senate.

There’s always a recess appointment if he can pull it off, but that’s the only way that anti-gun, anti-American man should get on the court.

[Ray76]

We need to look at cases.

Meanwhile, some search results to explore -

2010: http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/65620/

2010: http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2010/04/supreme-court-contender-profile-judge-merrick-garland/

2007: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/08/AR2007050801212.html

2007: http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/merrick-b-garland-financial-disclosure-report-for-2007/
2006: http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/merrick-b-garland-financial-disclosure-report-for-2006/

2008: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/guantanamo-as-alice-in-wo_b_110128.html

2003: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/206029/white-house-schumer-youre-wrong-byron-york

1987: “Antitrust and State Action: Economic Efficiency and the Political Process” Yale Law Journal
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/796502.pdf?&acceptTC=true&jpdConfirm=true&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents (possibly of interest: “Revision and Apology in Antitrust Federalism” - Yale Law Journal http://www.jstor.org/stable/796385?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Also possibly of interest although likely less so “’Sovereign’ State Policy and State Action Antitrust Immunity” http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2777&context=flr Going even further afield http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2162&context=bclr )

2013: Judge Merrick B. Garland presents American Law Institute’s Henry J. Friendly Medal to Judge Webster https://www.ali.org/about-ali/awards/henry-j-friendly-medal/

1985: “Deregulation and Judicial Review” Harvard Law Review http://www.jstor.org/stable/1340869?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

2001: A former clerk for William Brennan, Garland managed to get significant Republican support for his current seat and reportedly wants a High Court spot badly. Some even suggest his opinions are tempered to shape his image in achieving this goal. (WOW!) http://prospect.org/article/contenders-high-court

1997: (143 Cong. Rec. S2515) NOMINATION OF MERRICK B. GARLAND, OF MARYLAND, TO BE U.S. CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1997-03-19/html/CREC-1997-03-19-pt1-PgS2515.htm

OKC related: http://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/Pre_96/May95/288.txt.html http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcveigh/mcveighhearing.html

2003: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/06.12/03-overseers.html

misc: http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/20/style/lynn-rosenman-is-married.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2005/08/friendly_fire.html

[gloryblaze]

bfl

[servantboy777]

>>A white guy. Who would have thought?<<

Not to worry, ya can’t see it, but there is white guilt oozing from his pores.

[NOVACPA]

Exactly. He is anti-gun, despite being positioned as “moderate.”

[Ray76]

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1998: With a new deadline looming at noon today, the Justice Department made a last-ditch emergency appeal to the Supreme Court yesterday to stop prosecutors from questioning President Clinton’s bodyguards about what they know of his relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky. [] Two of the 11 active judges did not participate: David B. Sentelle, who sits on the special panel that oversees Starr and is required by law to recuse himself, and Merrick B. Garland, who was a top aide to Reno until Clinton appointed him to the bench last year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/starr071798.htm

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1996: The Unabomber prosecution team is supervised by Merrick B. Garland, a top assistant to Deputy Atty. Gen. Jamie S. Gorelick. http://articles.latimes.com/1996-06-13/news/mn-14442_1_unabomber-trial

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https://www.dcvote.org/news/how-can-dc-get-vote-judges-ask-those-seeking-representation-congress

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The Homecoming, Whores Pimps and Kindly Old Men
The Harvard Crimson
By Merrick Garland, February 15, 1972

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1972/2/15/the-homecoming-pibtbhe-homecomingi-is-dedicated/

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U.S. Drives Out Bronx Drug Gang
Racketeering Law Allows Great Latitude In Prosecution

Garland, the associate attorney general of the Justice Department: “We are intentionally trying to use the federal government’s prosecution weapons to bring down a whole enterprise, rather than one murder here and one murder there.”

articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-10-20/news/9410200136_1_prosecution-of-gang-members-racketeering-two-dozen-gangs+&cd=23&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

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[midlander]

Sadly .... it is happening again ... the conservatives fracture and insure. the liberals Will wIN AGAIN!!!

WHY O WHY can’t we see what we do? It has led us to the current state of affairs?

Pray for our nation, and direction, and guidance from this current tragedy!!! It just gets worse and worse! STOP !!! the destruction of America.

[Ray76]

This one really jumps out

A former clerk for William Brennan, Garland managed to get significant Republican support for his current seat and reportedly wants a High Court spot badly. Some even suggest his opinions are tempered to shape his image in achieving this goal (a Supreme Court seat). (emphasis added) http://prospect.org/article/contenders-high-court

[alancarp]

Now comes the hand-wringing from the GOPe: they are going to have to weigh whether Hillary wins in November (and then we get a much worse nominee they can’t ignore) or whether they gamble hoping that the GOP wins and the next nom comes from the hated Trump.

[alancarp]

Ding - he’s a shape-shifter politician, masquerading as a judge. Looks moderate; will be highly liberal. So will the Senate see that?

[Moonman62]

One of Garland’s mentors, according to a July 6, 1995 Los Angeles Times article, was then-Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick.

...

Gorelick. Now there’s a rotten name from the past.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2776423/posts

[midlander]

Agreed ... can we not unite behind a conservative?

Most do not want to become another SARAH PALIN, attacked on- from every level and side.

[beef]

I agree. We have too many people from these two schools running things. The inbred cultures of these institutions are part of the problem. They do not reflect the US as a whole. I am also concerned how the concentration of power in the hands of their alumni affects the admissions process.