{"id":23638,"date":"2016-03-16T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23638"},"modified":"2016-03-16T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:40:46","slug":"ap-obama-to-nominate-judge-merrick-garland-to-u-s-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23638\/ap-obama-to-nominate-judge-merrick-garland-to-u-s-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: Obama to Nominate Judge Merrick Garland to U.S. Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several\u00a0news sources, including the Associated Press,\u00a0are reporting that President Obama will nominate Judge Merrick Garland to fill Justice Scalia&#8217;s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_OBAMA_SUPREME_COURT?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_blank\">AP piece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Barack Obama will nominate federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, congressional sources said Wednesday. &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Garland is the chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a court whose influence over federal policy and national security matters has made it a proving ground for potential Supreme Court justices. &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Congressional sources spoke on condition of anonymity because Obama had not yet announced his choice. &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Obama planned to introduce his pick at 11 a.m. in the White House Rose Garden.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several\u00a0news sources, including the Associated Press,\u00a0are reporting that President Obama will nominate Judge Merrick Garland to fill Justice Scalia&#8217;s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. From the AP piece: WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Barack Obama will nominate federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, congressional sources said Wednesday. &#8230; Garland is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[285,4837,14,284],"class_list":["post-23638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-antonin-scalia","tag-merrick-garland","tag-president-obama","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23642,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638\/revisions\/23642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}