Washington —
President-elect Joe Biden formally named Merrick Garland, a federal judge who never got a hearing on his nomination to the US supreme court, to be attorney-general as he builds his law enforcement team. The nomination of Garland, who is chief justice of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, will particularly resonate with Democrats who remember that Senate Republicans prevented him from ascending to the high court in 2016.
Biden also named Lisa Monaco to be deputy attorney-general and Vanita Gupta as associate attorney-general. Monaco spent almost two decades at the justice department and was homeland security adviser in the Obama administration. Gupta headed the department’s civil rights division under former president Barack Obama.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)