Politico and AP are reporting that Joe Biden has found his attorney general.<br />Biden will nominate Judge Merrick Garland as his attorney general.<br />Garland has been a judge on the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, since 1997.<br />He began his legal career at the Justice Department under President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s.<br />In March 2016 Pres. Barack Obama nominated him to succeed Antonin Scalia to the Supreme court.<br />His nomination was scuttled after Republicans stonewalled it.
