63 years old. Harvard law grad. Longtime judge. Current Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
This is just some of what we know about Merrick Garland, President Obama's choice to fill the open Supreme Court seat, vacated when Justice Antonin Scalia died earlier this year.
He's commonly regarded as a centrist who has earned plenty of plaudits from those on the right. In fact, as recently as Sunday he was lauded by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UT, a former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he is still a member.
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