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Sen. Whitehouse asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to review the 2018 FBI investigation of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee, D.C. Circuit Judge Merrick Garland, to serve as Attorney General.

President Joe Biden’s attorney general nominee Merrick Garland as a college student at Harvard University wrote in a review of a musical that a song about rape was one of the play’s “hilarious group numbers.”

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Justice (DOJ) as Attorney General, Merrick Garland, is still refusing to say whether he supports decriminalizing illegal immigration.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called out Democrat lawyer Marc Elias on Monday in a speech explaining his vote on the confirmation of Judge Merrick Garland as U.S. Attorney General.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will back Merrick Garland’s nomination to run President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. 

Joy Behar quipped to her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that she couldn’t “wait to see” attorney general nominee Merrick Garland, once confirmed, indict Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for being “part of the insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Merrick Garland’s testimony — shaky at times, radically left-wing at others — made clear that America dodged a bullet when Republicans blocked him.

Monday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) discussed the utility calamity in Texas due to winter weather and the Merrick Garland confirmation hearings underway before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

On Monday’s broadcast of “Fox News Primetime,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) stated that Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland “is not fit to be the attorney general” because his answer on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) shows “he’s not reading

President Joe Biden’s nominee for United States Attorney General, Merrick Garland, says he does not know if the Department of Justice (DOJ) will continue prosecuting illegal border crossings should the Senate confirm him. 

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) was upset Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” over the line of questioning by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and John Cornyn (R-TX) at attorney general nominee Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearing.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) pressed U.S. Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland about the controversial past views and statements of two other Department of Justice nominees, Vanita Gupta and Kristen Clarke, in a Senate hearing Monday.

Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland struggled Monday with questions about the death penalty during his confirmation hearing in the Senate.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to be United States Attorney General, Merrick Garland, told lawmakers on Monday he is unaware Mexican drug cartels game the nation’s asylum system.

Judge Merrick Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday that Antifa’s attacks on the U.S. courthouse in Portland last year may not have been “domestic terrorism,” because unlike the Capitol riot, they took place at night when the court was not “in operation.”

Judge Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, declined to say on Monday whether he would retain Special Counsel John Durham in his role investigating the origins of the “Russia collusion” investigation.

Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland promised Saturday to vigorously prosecute those who joined the attack on the U.S. Capitol last month.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) struck a power-sharing deal Wednesday that prevented Democrats from formally taking control over the chamber’s committees.

Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland hopes to tap a former Facebook lawyer as the leader of the DOJ’s antitrust division, according to a report released Thursday.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder urged Democrats on Monday to pack the Supreme Court in response to what he called a crisis of “legitimacy” brought about by the appointment of a conservative majority.

President-elect Joe Biden claimed Thursday that the rioters who stormed the United States Capitol earlier this week would have been treated “very differently” had they been protesters associated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Judge Merrick Garland to serve as his attorney general, according to multiple reports, including Politico and the Associated Press.

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that if Democrats win control of the Senate, they will “right wrongs, balance scales and do justice” in response to Republicans’ confirming Amy Coney Barrett as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Democrat vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris called the Senate’s confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to SCOTUS “illegitimate.”

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) falsely claimed that Amy Coney Barrett “laid out the case for blocking” Judge Merrick Garland — and she fact-checked him on the spot.

Comedian and former Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) said Monday on MSNBC that Judge Amy Coney Barrett was “completely hypocritical” for her comments supporting Republicans not taking up Judge Merrick Garland nomination in an election year.

Hillary Clinton told the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg on Wednesday that if Democrats controlled the U.S. Senate, they would not push through a Supreme Court nominee before the election.

The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued in 2016 that the United States Senate should respect that a president’s constitutional power is for “four years, not three years,” when considering Supreme Court appointments. 

Informal precedent set by previous presidents supports President Donald Trump making a nomination to the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, explained Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, offering her remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said the Senate “must honor” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s wish to be replaced after a new president is elected, despite demanding the Senate to “do its job” by holding confirmation hearings and voting on former President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell debunked the Democrat “myth” that there is not sufficient time to examine and confirm a Supreme Court nominee prior to the presidential election.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democrat nominee for president, did not bring up the so-called “Biden Rule” during a speech on Sunday when he demanded the U.S. Senate preserve until after the upcoming election the Supreme Court vacancy resulting from the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) stated Sunday that the “same standard must apply” to fill the Supreme Court vacancy as it did in 2016.

Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said Saturday that Republicans “should hold the same position” they did in 2016 to decide who should fill the Supreme Court vacancy.

Democrat lawmakers are warning Republicans against filling a Supreme Court vacancy this year after Republicans ignored former President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland. At the time, Republican leadership stated that “the American people should have a say in the court’s direction” given 2016’s status as a presidential election year.