GOP Senator Vows to Slow Down Merrick Garland’s Confirmation
- Tom Cotton objects to answers about immigration, death penalty
- Attorney general pick will be confirmed, but will be delayed
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Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland will have to wait a little longer to be confirmed after a Republican senator said he would refuse to expedite a final confirmation vote.
Garland has enough bipartisan support to be confirmed, but Tom Cotton, the junior senator from Arkansas and a potential candidate for president in 2024, complained in a series of tweets about how Garland answered questions about immigration, the death penalty and racial equity.