No bidders for ‘anti-Semitic’ Taft letter opposing Brandeis nomination The episode provides an interesting parallel to the fight over President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland, also a Jewish judge, to the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court upholds law facilitating access to Iran assets by victims of terrorist attacks Among the plaintiffs is the Rubin family whose family member was injured in a 1997 double suicide bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem.
Merrick Garland emotionally recalls Jewish roots in accepting Supreme Court nomination His grandparents fled anti-Semitism in Russia to start a new life in the United States.