People: Biden picks D.C. Circuit Judge Garland for attorney general

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate as his attorney general (AG) Merrick Garland, currently a judge on the appellate U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit who has heard a number of lawsuits over EPA policies, including as a member of a three-judge panel that stayed an Obama agency climate rule for truck trailers. Garland was previously nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the Supreme Court following the February 2016 death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but...