Garland, 63, Chief Judge for u.s. Court for appeals a District of Columbia Circuit is the oldest person named to the highest court in the country since President Nixon appointed Justice Lewis Powell in 1971.
The nomination faces obstacles from the start. Senate Republicans have a promised to block any replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia-saying that the next President must choose a candidate.
Obama and the Democrats, however, argue that, with 10 months left in his presidency, the Senate has enough time to consider and confirm a new justice.
The announcement comes on the heels of big nights for front-runners Hillary Clinton and Republicans and Democrats Donald Trump, respectively, on their way to appointments.
the President's timing seems aimed to inject the Supreme Court selection a process directly to the heated political discourse.
Since Scalia's death last month, the Supreme Court has been an operating with eight judges--four appointed by Democrats and four by Republicans.
If confirmed, the Garland moderate would provide a radically different vision than the strongly conservative Scalia did.
Despite posturing by Republicans in the Senate, polls show Americans support giving a candidate a hearing.
Democrats and independents want GOP Senate leaders to hold hearings about the candidate.
The Appeals Court has been a proving ground for potential Supreme Court judges because of its influence on federal policy and national security issues.
An influential Appeals Court veteran of 19 years, Garland graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and worked for Justice William Brennan, according to thinkprogress.org.
He spent a few years as a partner of the law firm Arnold Porter and also multinational & held positions in the Justice Department, including in its criminal division and as the principal Associate Deputy Attorney General.
The Senator Orrin Hatch, a most senior Republican in the Senate Justice Committee, called Garland a "good man", but predicted that he would not be the choice of Obama.
He said the new conservative site Newsmax that Obama would pick up another candidate because this nomination is about the election. So, I'm sure he'll appoint somebody [liberal Democrat].
Garland has a reputation for a moderation, which cited a 2003 case in which joined an opinion holding that the federal judiciary has no authority to (claim a habeas corpus jurisdiction under an alien held in a military base rented from another nation, the military base outside the sovereignty of the United States).
The opinion barred Guantanamo prisoners from seeking relief in civil courts. The Supreme Court reversed the decision about a year later, in Rasul v. Bush.
Goldstein (identified only eight such published) regulations, in addition to seven where he voted to reverse the sentence of the defendant in whole or in part or to allow the defendant to raise an argument concerning the sentence on remand, during the 13 years Garland was then spent in the DC Circuit.
To be clear, no Garlands record suggests that he would join the Court's right flank if confirmed to be Supreme Court, the site reported.
He would probably vote much more often than not with a Supreme Court's Liberals while the occasionally an unorthodox vote.
Barack Obama nominates Merrick Garland to Supreme Court
President Obama nominates Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, creating a dramatic political struggle with Senate Republicans who have vowed to block any replacement for the late Judge Antonin Scalia.
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