Former Cleveland-Marshall Dean had Connections to Current Supreme Court Nominee

Back in 1997, Merrick Garland, President Obama’s current nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, was a high-ranking official in the Justice Department who was providing legal oversight and supervision for the prosecution of the Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh.

At that time, Geoffrey Mearns, C|M Law’s Dean from 2005-2010, was working as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Garland recommended Mearns to be added to the trial team that helped prosecute McVeigh’s accomplice, Terry Nichols.

Mearns, who is now President of Northern Kentucky University, gave several interviews to local Kentucky news stations about his connection to Garland including these two from WCPO in Kentucky, and Cincinnati.com.

The Oklahoma City Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, on April 19^th, 1995 was the worst act of homegrown terrorism in U.S. History.