U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will nominate federal judge Merrick Garland as the minister of justice, Biden said today.
Judge Garland, 68, is serving in the federal circuit court in Washington, DC.
In 2016, then President Barack Obama nominated Judge Garland as Supreme Court Justice, but the Republican Party that held the Senate rejected him, and he was not made Supreme Court Justice. At the time, the Vice President was the current Biden-elect.
Biden, who will take office on January 20, is known to appoint Lisa Monaco as Deputy Minister of Justice and Christen Clark as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights.
During last year’s presidential campaign, Biden promised to end the racial disparity in the process of determining the sentence through a minimum sentence, abolition of the federal death penalty, and an investigation into the structural issues of the police.
Most of these measures require council cooperation, but the next Attorney General is likely to have great power in realizing Biden’s promise.
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