Merrick Garland Pro-Labor, Says Judicial Scorecard

While Merrick Garland served as the chief judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, businesses lost 90 percent of the time, according to the National Federation of Independent Business’ judicial scorecard, released this week. Garland, who is President Obama’s nominee to fill the vacant U.S. Supreme Court seat, also ruled in favor of federal agencies 77 percent of the time. This is the first time the NFIB has chosen to thoroughly analyze the record of a Supreme Court nominee, and the organization say their results show a judge who is not as moderate as painted by the media. “He is quantifiably biased in favor of regulatory agencies and against private sector businesses,” NFIB president and CEO Juanita Duggan said. “In most of the cases in which Garland sided with a private party, he was ruling in favor of a labor union, an environmental group, or an employee seeking some sort of punitive action against another private party. The bottom line is that private businesses are almost always a loser in Merrick Garland’s court.”