On Wednesday, March 16, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to be on the panel of Supreme Court judges to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The Republican party had previously said that they would not allow any candidate to pass through to be a judge on the panel. They also said that they would not meet the candidates before he/she is nominated.
Mr. Garland is a sixty-three year old Washington lawyer and jurist. He is the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Garland is from Chicago and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is widely respected in the Washington D.C. legal community.