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Who is Obama's Supreme Court nominee?
16th March 2016
President Obama today announced that he was nominating Merrick Garland as the justice to replace Antonin Scalia on the US Supreme Court. Garland is currently the chief judge on the Washington Appeals Court, and was appointed to that role by Democrat president Bill Clinton in 1997.
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Ruth Tarrant
Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.
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