President Barack Obama has had face-to-face interviews with at least two leading Supreme Court candidates, as he steps up his search for a successor to Justice John Paul Stevens.
The president has met with two federal appeals-court judges, Merrick Garland of Washington, D.C., and Sidney Thomas of Montana, a senior administration official said Friday.
The hour-long meeting with Judge Thomas was Thursday, the official said; the one with Judge Garland took place earlier in April. Vice President Joe Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, met with both men in recent days as well, another official said.
The president is expected to announce his choice of a nominee before May 26—the date last year when he nominated now-Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the bench—in hopes that he or she is confirmed by the Senate’s August recess.
Merrick Brian Garland is an Article III federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He joined the court in 1997 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. Garland is one of three leading contenders for nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States since the April 2010 retirement announcement of Justice John Paul Stevens.—Judgepedia
Sidney Runyan Thomas is a Federal Appeals Judge with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit based in San Francisco. He joined the court in 1996 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.—Judgepedia
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