Obama to nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court

Garland, 63, the chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has been on short lists before. An appointee of President Bill Clinton, Garland is a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School. As a Justice Department lawyer, he supervised investigations in the Unabomber case as well as the Oklahoma City bombing. Senate Republicans do not plan to vet or have hearings on the nominee, and say the next President should be able to choose Scalia's replacement.

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