Merrick Garland on War & Peace

	Merrick Garland on War & Peace

Judicial deference to wartime executive power

While Garland is undoubtedly a legal liberal, his record tends to line up in favor of broad judicial deference to law enforcement and wartime executive power. In the area of criminal law, Garland's votes have frequently come down on the side of prosecutors and police. In 2010, SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein observed that "Judge Garland rarely votes in favor of criminal defendants' appeals of their convictions." Source: Reason Magazine on 2021 Biden Administration , Sep 5, 2018

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