If the U.S. Senate gives him a hearing, senators will discover in U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, a judge “cut out of the same mold” of one of the greatest federal judges in the history of the judiciary—the late Henry J. Friendly, say his former clerks.
In a letter to Senate Republican and Democratic leaders on Thursday, 31 former Friendly clerks from major law firms and academia describe how Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, shares many of the qualities that earned Friendly, former chief of the Second Circuit, a reputation for brilliance and powerful legal reasoning.
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