Joe Biden said he would be open to renominating the now 66-year-old Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, something he and President Barack Obama couldn't do in 2016
Former Vice President Joe Biden said he would be open to renominating to the Supreme Court federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland, whose Senate confirmation in 2016 was thwarted by the Republican Senate .with Iowa Starting Line on Friday, the Democratic presidential hopeful called Garland a “first-rate person.”Obama first nominated Garland in 2016 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
“I think we should have been a whole heck of a lot harder on [Mitch McConnell],” Biden told Starting Line of the 2016 effort. Biden said when he would ask Republicans why they were blocking the nomination, they would respond, “I’m in a red state, if I go ahead and just call for a hearing, the Koch Brothers will drop five, 10 million dollars on my race.”
Biden said he would not try to expand the court as president, but added that reforming campaign finance laws to allow for public financing could reduce partisan gridlock during judicial nominations. Garland serves as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and he has been regarded as a moderate. Still, critics say it would not be strategic to nominate the judge a second time because he is now 66. Meanwhile, Trump
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