Merrick Garland is unfit for Supreme Court and AG

Merrick Garland s nomination to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama died on base when Republicans refused to take it up. The seat was instead filled by now-Justice Neil Gorsuch. Garland s consolation prize: becoming President Joe Biden s attorney general. Yet in nine short months, he s proved not only unfit to sit on the court but unfit to serve as attorney general. Indeed, his behavior suggests he s not qualified for any federal position.

Garland s nomination to the court was always iffy. Libertarians thought his track record was dangerously authoritarian. The trustees of the estate of the late Justice William Brennan, for whom Garland had clerked, inexplicably sealed records having to do with Garland s time working at the court. And though Garland was touted as a moderate, a straight-shooter who could cruise to an easy confirmation, he satisfied neither the Democratic left nor the Republican center.

But what Garland has demonstrated as AG is a different kind of deficit, a deficit of character and integrity. As Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said to Garland in hearings this week, Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court.

via nypost.com