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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 16, 2016
Nomination Sent to the Senate
NOMINATION SENT TO THE SENATE:
Merrick B. Garland, of Maryland, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, vice Antonin Scalia, deceased.