{"id":46704,"date":"2021-02-23T01:57:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T01:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46704"},"modified":"2021-02-23T01:57:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T01:57:25","slug":"garland-an-impressive-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46704","title":{"rendered":"Garland: an impressive presence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23SCOTUS%20%23DOJ&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surely I am not the only red-blooded American patriot who watched U.S. Attorney General-designate Merrick Garland&#8217;s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee to have this thought.<\/p>\n<p>It was that he would make a terrific U.S. Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but wait &#8230; he could&#8217;ve gotten there had the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate not blocked his confirmation in 2016 after President Barack Obama nominated him to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well. Garland will make a stellar AG by employing the same temperament that would have served him well as a SCOTUS justice.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23SCOTUS%20%23DOJ&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Surely I am not the only red-blooded American patriot who watched U.S. Attorney General-designate Merrick Garland&#8217;s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee to have this thought. It was that he would make a terrific U.S. Supreme Court justice. Oh, but wait &#8230; he could&#8217;ve gotten there had the Republican majority &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46704\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garland: an impressive presence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1414,1941,6063,6363],"class_list":["post-46704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doj","tag-gop","tag-merrick-garland","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46705,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46704\/revisions\/46705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}