Merrick Garland as AG… Is that really the best we can do?
He seems like a nice guy, but is that what we need today?
5 min readJan 11, 2021
Like most progressives, I nurture an enduring resentment over the theft of Barack Obama’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 2016. I must admit that news of Antonin Scalia’s death took my breath away, and I briefly fantasized about a progressive Supreme Court majority.