Merrick Garland faced the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing as President Joe Biden’s attorney general nominee and underwent a few tense moments of questioning.
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However, the nominee to head the Justice Department largely earned bipartisan support, approximately five years after Senate Republicans refused to grant him a Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
Garland was pressed on political independence of the Justice Department, systemic racism, immigration, the war on drugs and more.
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