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Video posted on Trump’s Instagram account shows Vladimir Putin throwing a judo opponent and Hillary Clinton barking
A few months ago, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin seemed on course to becoming best buddies.
Asked in December for his view of the Republican presidential frontrunner, the Russian president described him as “a colourful and talented person without any doubt” and “the absolute leader of the presidential race”. Trump welcomed the praise, saying: “It is always a great honour to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond.”
Any cosiness has been brought to an abrupt halt, however, after Trump lumped Putin in with Islamic State in a bizarre campaign ad featuring Hillary Clintonbarking like a dog.
The video, posted on Trump’s Instagram account, attempts to cast doubt over the Democratic party frontrunner’s ability to deal with Putin and America’s opponents in general, showing the Russian leader throwing an opponent in a judo bout, and an Islamist militant gesturing at the camera with a gun.
“When it comes to facing our toughest opponents, the Democrats have the perfect answer,” the video says, before cutting to footage of Clinton imitating a dog at a recent campaign event.
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY12:24 p.m. EDT March 16, 2016
President Obama announced he is nominating Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. USA TODAY's Richard Wolf analyzes what Obama's nomination of Garland could mean come November.USA TODAY
Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — the most common stepping-stone to the Supreme Court — comes straight out of central casting.
Like five current justices as well as the late Antonin Scalia, who he would replace, Garland attended Harvard Law School. Like Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor, he's a former prosecutor. Like Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he comes from the powerful D.C. Circuit court.
Garland isn't even the first Supreme Court nominee to earn undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard, clerk for Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, work at the Justice Department, become a partner at a major Washington, D.C., law firm, and serve on the D.C. Circuit . Roberts did all that.
Faced with the opportunity to nominate the court's first Asian American, third African American or fifth woman in history, Obama opted for a mild-mannered Jew from Chicago who may be the most difficult of all the potential nominees for Republicans to rebuff.
In his brief Rose Garden remarks Wednesday, a choked-up Garland described his early years as a prosecutor seeking to convince scared mothers and grandmothers to testify against violent gang members.
“Trust that justice will be done in our courts without prejudice or partisanship is what in large part distinguishes this country from others," he said. His job then as now, he added, was to make sure that "the rule of law would prevail."
At 63, Garland is older than most high court nominees. As the top choice of a president who prides himself on the unprecedented diversity of his federal judges, Garland can only be described as a nondescript white male.
His nearly two decades on the powerful appeals court should give opponents more to parse than many recent nominees with brief tenures on the bench — or in the case of Justice Elena Kagan, who nosed out Garland in 2010, none at all. Yet a search of his record reveals few opinions or dissents on hot-button issues.
The last time Garland went before the Senate, it also was controlled by Republicans, and for a while he endured the same fate he faces now. President Bill Clinton named him to the appeals court in 1995, but his nomination languished through the 1996 election year. Once Clinton won a second term, Garland won confirmation by a 76-23 vote in 1997, with 32 Republicans supporting him.
“He earned overwhelming, bipartisan praise from senators and legal experts alike,” Obama said. During each of his previous Supreme Court searches, the president said, “the one name that has come up repeatedly from Republicans and Democrats alike is Merrick Garland.”
If confirmed — a long shot at the moment, but not unfathomable after Election Day — Garland would be the oldest justice to join the court since Lewis Powell, then 64, in 1972. Powell went on to serve more than 15 years, retiring in 1987.
During 19 years at the D.C. Circuit, Garland has managed to keep a low profile. The court's largely administrative docket has left him without known positions on issues such as abortion or the death penalty.