{"id":165390,"date":"2021-02-23T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T22:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=165390"},"modified":"2021-02-23T18:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T23:13:53","slug":"merrick-garland-has-a-lot-of-thinking-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merrick-garland-has-a-lot-of-thinking-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrick Garland Has a Lot Of Thinking To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmerrick-garland-has-a-lot-of-thinking-to-do%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=165390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/garland.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Judge Merrick Garland, who will likely become the next attorney general, isn\u2019t really sure what he thinks about illegal immigration, China, and the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A string of evasive answers made Garland\u2019s confirmation hearing on Monday a dull and tedious affair, especially since his confirmation looks like a lock.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Biden Administration<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/merrick-garland-has-a-lot-of-thinking-to-do\/\"><strong>Merrick Garland Has a Lot Of Thinking To Do<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/new-bill-would-block-biden-admin-from-sending-gitmo-terrorists-to-the-u-s\/\"><strong>New Bill Would Block Biden Admin from Sending Gitmo Terrorists to the U.S.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-health-nominee-mum-on-taxpayer-funded-abortion\/\"><strong>Biden Health Nominee Mum On Taxpayer Funded Abortion<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The proceedings made for a stark contrast with the confirmation hearings of Jeff Sessions and William Barr, who were lambasted by Democrats for similarly noncommittal answers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here are Garland\u2019s thoughts on some of today\u2019s most pressing issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Whether illegally crossing the border should remain a crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t thought about that question, I just haven&#8217;t thought about that question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Whether it was wrong to force nursing homes to accept patients who previously tested positive for COVID-19.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I honestly don\u2019t know what happened with the nursing homes\u2026. I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m not trying to be evasive. I really, I really don\u2019t know the facts here.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Whether special counsel John Durham\u2019s probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation is legitimate.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I don\u2019t really know anything about the investigation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Whether President Joe Biden should issue an across-the-board commutation of federal death row inmates.<br \/><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is one of the ones which I would have to think about, which I have not thought about.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Whether the Chinese Communist Party is an enemy of the United States.<br \/><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well I don\u2019t have the same familiarity with the intelligence information that the director of national intelligence has, so in terms of comparing, say, the threat from China and the threat from Russia, I\u2019m just not competent to make that comparison.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Whether biological men who identify as women should be allowed to participate in women\u2019s sports.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The particular question of how Title IX applies in schools is one that, in light of the <em>Bostock<\/em> case, which I know you&#8217;re very familiar with, is something that I would have to look at when I have a chance to do that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Merrick Garland, who will likely become the next attorney general, isn\u2019t really sure what he thinks about illegal immigration, China, and the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.\u00a0 A string &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893513,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}