Supreme Court nominee returns to bench as judge, not justice [View all]
Source: Associated Press
Jessica Gresko, Associated Press Updated 5:23 pm, Wednesday, January 18, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland, the judge nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court, made his return to the courtroom on Wednesday to hear cases as a federal appeals court judge, not a Supreme Court justice.
Garland, the chief judge of the District of Columbia Circuit, stopped hearing cases in March after he was nominated to fill the seat of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February. But after Republicans blocked his confirmation, it was announced in mid-December that he'd again begin hearing federal appeals court cases.
President-elect Donald Trump is now expected to announce his own nomination to the court within the two weeks of his inauguration on Friday.
There was no mention during nearly three hours of argument on Wednesday that it was Garland's first day back on the bench in 11 months.
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