Senate Confirms Merrick Garland As Attorney General
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Merrick Garland confirmed as attorney general, turning page on Trump eraMerrick Garland has been confirmed as America’s top law enforcement officer, a boost for Joe Biden’s drive against racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.
Garland’s rise to attorney general, approved 70-30 by the US Senate in a strongly bipartisan vote, turns the page on former president Donald Trump’s harsh “law and order” rhetoric and efforts to bend the justice department to his will.
It also marks a poignant second chance for the 68-year-old judge who, nominated to the supreme court by then president Barack Obama in 2016, was denied...
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Senate Votes to Confirm Merrick Garland as Attorney GeneralThe Senate on Wednesday voted 70-30 to confirm Merrick Garland as attorney general, five years after the federal appeals court judge was blocked from consideration as former President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court.
Garland has said his top priority as head of the Justice Department will be overseeing investigations into the January 6 Capitol riot.
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Senate confirms Merrick Garland as U.S. attorney generalThe Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Merrick Garland as attorney general, placing the longtime federal appeals court judge and onetime Supreme Court pick at the helm of an agency central to President Joe Biden's domestic policy agenda.
The vote was 70-30. Garland takes over as the head of the Department of Justice as the sprawling agency continues to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, one of the largest probes in its history. Garland has called the inquiry his No. 1 priority.
The Justice Department will also...
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