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Roll Call Roundtable: Obama Nominates Merrick Garland for Supreme Court Seat

By Melinda Henneberger
Posted March 29, 2016 at 7:23pm

By Melinda Henneberger

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This week’s Roll Call Roundtable examines President Obama’s SCOTUS pick of Merrick Garland and talks to CQ’s legal affairs writer Todd Ruger on past Supreme Court fights. We also look at how presidential winds could help Democrat Deborah Ross upset two-term Republican Richard Burr and why WWII women pilots are being denied burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

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