Merrick Garland nominated as US Supreme Court judge

March 16, 2016 20:38

Federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland was nominated to the US Supreme Court on Wednesday by President Barack Obama.

Garland, 63, is the chief judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. An appointee of former US president Bill Clinton, Garland is a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School.

As a Justice Department lawyer he supervised the investigations in the Unabomber case as well as the Oklahoma City bombing.

He would replace conservative, Justice Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly last month, leaving behind a bitter election-year fight over the future of the court.

Garland is a 19 year veteran of the DC Circuit -- a court that is widely viewed as the second-most powerful in the nation -- Garland graduated with high honours from Harvard Law School.

At age 63, Garland is also the oldest person nominated to the Supreme Court since President Nixon named Justice Lewis Powell in 1971.

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