WakeForestRanger
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Garland accepting would be a huge surprise to me. USCoA judges have the sweetest job ever. When they retire from their lifetime appointment they can take Senior Status, maintain full salary, and take a (very) reduced case load.
When I said "it would surprise me" I meant "it would surprise me". I was not making a predictionYou don't think Biden, like, called him on the phone and asked him if he was interested first ?
Mitch McConnell gonna have to vote on Merrick Garland after all.
Garland accepting would be a huge surprise to me. USCoA judges have the sweetest job ever. When they retire from their lifetime appointment they can take Senior Status, maintain full salary, and take a (very) reduced case load.
Garland accepting would be a huge surprise to me. USCoA judges have the sweetest job ever. When they retire from their lifetime appointment they can take Senior Status, maintain full salary, and take a (very) reduced case load.
He could also go from AG to SCOTUS if a seat opens up which allows Biden to appoint another judge to the DC Circuit.
Breyer is 82 years old and I imagine some lessons were learned from RBG.
Garland is 68. He's not getting nominated now. Aware that the Republican controlled senate could block the appointment, Obama nominated Garland because he credentials were impeccable he was relatively moderate, and he was older, with the hope that it would make tougher for McConnell to take an extreme position. Didn't work out.
Sounds like a given that Biden's first SCOTUS nominee will be an African-American woman (a first for the Court).
I hope Garland takes Trump to the SC if he tries to pardon himself.