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In an interview streamed on YouTube and Facebook Live on Monday, Buzzfeed News legal editor Chris Geidner grilled President Obama over his nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court: “...a large part of your legacy on judicial nominations has been diversifying the federal bench....You had an opportunity with this nomination to, for the first time in the nation’s history, if the justice was confirmed, to have a Supreme Court that was not a majority of straight white men. Why didn’t you take that opportunity?”
In a follow-up question, Geidner again pressed Obama from left, fretting that Garland was not liberal enough: “There were some liberal lawyers, including David Menschel, who said that they had the same concern about Judge Garland, given his prosecutor past, which you’ve obviously touted in his nomination. He said he’d rather have an eight-member court. What do you say to people who that concern about this nomination?”