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Garland not the first judge to answer president's call

by Mark Sherman
| January 7, 2021 4:18 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland is joining a small club, including a couple of Supreme Court justices, who gave up lifetime jobs as a federal judge because a president, or soon-to-be president, asked them to.

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