WASHINGTON (JTA) — Some five years after being snubbed for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Merrick Garland is the new U.S. attorney general. In a 70-30 vote Wednesday, the U.S. Senate ...

The letter, addressed to current Attorney General Merrick Garland and signed by all Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, comes just one week before Trump's inauguration. "As President ...

Last year, then-President Barack Obama picked Garland to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat left open when Justice Antonin Scalia died. However, Senate Republicans refused to consider him ...