The Nomination of Merrick Garland Is a Victory for Judicial Restraint

President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court Wednesday morning, setting up a dramatic political fight with Senate Republicans who have vowed to block any replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Merrick Garland, a 

I've known Merrick Garland and his wife Lynn for the nearly two decades he served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. And over the course of many conversations and meals over the years, I've grown, like so many others, to admire him as

A string of bulletins marked “URGENT” flashed across Merrick Garland's computer screen on the fourth floor of the Justice Department. “An explosion was heard,” read the first report of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. “Black smoke billowed…. It appears

President Barack Obama arrives with Judge Merrick Garland to announce Merrick Garland as his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, in the White House Rose Garden in Washington, March 16 2016. Is Merrick Garland a conservative? A liberal? A centrist?

A string of bulletins marked “URGENT” flashed across Merrick Garland's computer screen on the fourth floor of the Justice Department. “An explosion was heard,” read the first report of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. “Black smoke billowed…. It appears