In one of hundreds of documents released Wednesday, the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. in 1995 urged President Bill Clinton to nominate Merrick Garland to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Brennan’s June 1995 letter, addressed to “My dear Mr. President,” was made public by the Clinton Presidential Library as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request after Garland was nominated in March to the Supreme Court. The U.S. Senate has not acted on the nomination.

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