Unabomber Case Helped Hone Garland’s Legal Skills
- Garland led investigations of Oklahoma City bombing, Unabomber
- Senate Republicans blocking Obama's U.S. Supreme Court choice
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The killer known as the Unabomber was methodical, patient and meticulous. So was the U.S. Justice Department official who directed the investigation that took him down.
Former colleagues of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland cite his legal skills in the courtroom and in overseeing the mid-1990s Unabomber and Oklahoma City bombing investigations as evidence that pragmatism and common sense, not an elaborate constitutional philosophy, would guide his decisions as an associate justice.