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Merrick Garland: President Obama’s Supreme Court Justice Nominee

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at GSU chapter.

On Wednesday, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, who is currently the chief judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington D.C., to be the 113th Supreme Court Justice of the United States.

 

Garland attended Harvard University on a scholarship, where he graduated summa cum laude, and then attended Harvard Law School. Garland has served on the D.C. Circuit Court for 19 years and led the investigation and case against Timothy McVeigh, an Oklahoma City bomber. He has the most federal judicial experience in the history of Supreme Court justice nominees.

Although a CNN/ORC survey shows that a majority of all Parties want Senate Republicans to hold hearings on Judge Garland, Senate Republicans want to wait until a new president is elected to have a vote on any Supreme Court justice nominee.

According to CNN, President Obama said, “I have selected a nominee who is widely recognized not only as one of America’s sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency modesty, integrity, evenhandedness and excellence.”

 

I currently work with iHeartMedia in digital content and on-air, and run a lifestyle blog. I am a first-generation college graduate with degrees in journalism and film media from Georgia State University. In college, I served as a production assistant for GSUTV; senior editor, social media coordinator and staff writer at Her Campus Georgia State (an online magazine for college women); Vice President of Communications for the Gamma Sigma chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi; and interned with The Adam Bomb Show (a nationally-syndicated night radio show) and The Bert Show (a nationally-syndicated morning radio show). I also secured a spot at Cox Media Group's Day in the Life program, where I presented a presentation to Cox Media and AJC executives on how to increase the AJC's digital audience. I am a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi Women's Fraternity, Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Order of Omega Honor Society, and the Atlanta Press Club. I also run a lifestyle blog that I started in 2015 where I talk about beauty, college, relationships, health, and just navigating life. You can join my little internet family here: www.amandadalvarado.com
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