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 ...

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 ...