Merrick Garland’s Moment

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In this episode of Third Degree, Elie Honig discusses the unique legacy of Merrick Garland, President Obama’s stymied Supreme Court nominee who will now become President Biden’s attorney general. He also breaks down the biggest decisions facing Garland as he takes the helm at DOJ, ranging from investigating Donald Trump to prosecuting Hunter Biden. Tune in with Elie every Friday on Third Degree for a conversation with a rotating slate of America’s most impressive law school students. Elie’s analysis doesn’t end with Third Degree.Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring articles by Elie, a weekly roundup of politically charged legal news, and historical lookbacks that help inform our current political challenges: cafe.com/article/the-stay-tuned-newsletter/ Transcript, references and supplemental materials are available on the CAFE website: https://cafe.com/third-degree-podcast/pros-vs-pretenders/ Third Degree is produced by CAFE Studios. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio and Music Producer: Nat Weiner; Editorial Producers: Sam Ozer-Staton, Noa Azulai. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	From Cafe, this is third degree.
0:32.8	I'm Ellie Honig.
0:44.6	Music Ellie Honig. For Attorney General of the United States,
0:49.0	I nominated a man of impeccable integrity,
0:53.0	Judge Merrick Garland.
0:54.8	Merrick Garland is going to have an interesting place in our history.
0:58.6	It looked for a while as if he would end up being known and remembered primarily as a
1:02.6	what could have been.
1:04.3	But now he's on the brink of becoming the top prosecutor in the entire country,
1:08.4	Attorney General of the United States.
1:10.7	Now, you'll probably remember,
1:11.8	back in February 2016, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away unexpectedly.
1:16.9	Scalia, of course, had been a staunch conservative on the court, a reliable right-wing
1:20.8	vote, hero to the Federalist Society crowd, and to conservatives in general. His passing opened up a
1:26.2	rare Supreme Court vacancy, and it threatened
1:28.8	to tip the balance of power because, of course, the president of the United States in February
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