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Senate Schedules Confirmation Hearing for Merrick Garland

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee has set a confirmation
   hearing for Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden's nominee for attorney
   general.

   Garland's confirmation hearing will begin on February22. The two-day
   hearing will include Garland's testimony and a second day for outside
   witnesses to testify.

   The committee's chair, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, said
   Garland's hearing was particularly urgent after the riot at the U.S.
   Capitol on January6, when hundreds of supporters of President Donald
   Trump stormed the Capitol as Congress was meeting to vote to certify
   Biden's electoral win.

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