A 1997 Bill Clinton appointee, Garland was interviewed for a Supreme Court seat by President Barack Obama this spring. Garland could not be reached to account for his success, but one of his former clerks explained it this way: “Justices on all sides of the political spectrum view him as doing the caliber of work they are looking for,” said University of Alabama law professor Heather Elliott, who clerked for Garland in 2001 and followed it with a Ruth Bader Ginsburg clerkship. — Tony Mauro
LAWYERS LINED UP FOR PROTEST PROBE
