Garland’s Former DOJ Colleagues Behind Letter from GCs to Senate

The letter that 44 top in-house lawyers signed and sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, which asks for hearings on Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, is the brainchild of a group of former Department of Justice attorneys.

Garland, currently chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. Circuit, spent three stints as a federal prosecutor including as principal associate deputy attorney general in the 1990s. While there, he supervised Jonathan Schwartz, who is now Univision’s chief legal and corporate affairs officer.

After Garland was nominated in March to fill the vacancy left by the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, and ...