Biden gives Merrick Garland a powerful new role, just as Mitch McConnell is poised to lose his

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The Associated Press first reported the news of Garland's expected appointment as Biden's attorney general, citing two people familiar with the selection process.

After his appointment, McConnell declined his nomination and said that the next president should be the one to nominate a Supreme Court Justice.

Merrick Garland, former US Supreme Court nominee, walks to the US District Court for DC November 2, 2017 in Washington, DC.During a speech in August, 2016, McConnell said"One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.'"

 

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