President Obama gave a shout out to his failed Supreme Court nominee at a Hanukkah reception Wednesday evening.
“We’ve got one of the country’s finest jurists, who I happened to have nominated to the Supreme Court, and who is going to continue to serve our country with distinction as the chief judge on the D.C. Circuit: Merrick Garland is here,” Obama said at the his second Hanukkah event of the day in the East Room.
The president, standing beside his wife Michelle, also recognized other special guests, including members of Congress and Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Garland was nominated in March to fill the vacancy following the death of Antonin Scalia. Senate Republicans refused to consider the nomination, saying instead that the next president should be the one to decide on a Supreme Court nominee.
