Merrick Brian Garland is an American lawyer and jurist serving as the 86th United States attorney general beginning in March 2021.
Garland presided over the Executive Committee of the U.S. Judicial Conference from 2017 to 2020. The administrative governing body of the U.S. federal court system. In February 2020, he resigned from his position as the District of Columbia Circuit's top judge, but he remained a member of the court. In the presidential election of 2020, held on November 3, Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump. Garland was proposed by Biden, the incoming president, for the position of U.S attorney general. Garland declared that one of his major responsibilities as attorney general would be to stop "extremist attacks on our democratic institutions" during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2021.
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