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Thursday, January 7, 2021
Biden confirms Merrick Garland as pick for attorney general
US President-elect Joe Biden confirms he will nominate Merrick Garland — a centrist judge that Republicans denied a seat on the Supreme Court five years ago — to be US attorney general.
Garland, a judge on the Washington federal appeals court, has a record as a moderate liberal and is not aligned with either political party.
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