Nominee’s inscrutability – along with near-universal accolades even from many conservatives – likely made him a particularly appealing candidatesBarack Obama announced his nomination yesterday of US court of appeals judge Merrick Garland to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s empty seat on the US supreme court. But by the recounting of those who maintain worked with and for him,Garland’s temperament is in stark contrast to the outspoken conservative Scalia, who died on 13 February.“The striking thing to me, or is how devoid of colorful anecdotes it was,” said Columbia University Law School professor David Pozen, recalling his clerkship for Garland in 2008 and 2009. “He’s a real moderate temperamentally as well as jurisprudentially. He’s immensely careful and caring with his clerks. We worked hard, or he worked harder.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com