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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 10, 2021

The U.S. Senate today confirmed Merrick Garland as the nation’s next attorney general, The Hill reports. Senators voted 70-30 to approve the nomination, easily topping the 50 votes needed. The paper notes that the vote came just days before the five-year anniversary of when then-President Obama nominated Garland to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Garland never received a hearing on that nomination. He has been serving on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals since 1997.