A Judge, Not a Justice, Garland Expected to Return to Cases

Judge Merrick Garland will soon put on his black judicial robe for the first time in months. The bad news for President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court is that Garland's going back to hearing cases at his old job, not the high court. Garland now joins a small group of people nominated but not confirmed to the Supreme Court, and there's no script for how to act as an unsuccessful nominee. As the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...

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