The Federal Senate Judiciary Committee voted on January 1 to advance the appointment of Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland by 15 votes to seven, and the Senate will hold a formal confirmation vote in the coming days.
Garland, if successfully appointed, will face the difficult task of dealing with a large increase in domestic terrorist activity.
Garland was nominated for a Supreme Court justice in 2016 when he was a federal appeals court judge, but returned in defeat due to Republican boycotts.
The Washington Post reported that Garland, then a senior Justice Department official, encouraged prosecutors to speed up the prosecution, but did not forget to sort through the massive evidence; he noted, “Don’t let the ponderous disorder McVeigh was convicted and brought to justice in 2001.
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