This week, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland will travel to Anchorage, Galena, and Huslia, Alaska, to meet with Alaskan Native leaders and local and state law enforcement partners.
On Tuesday, at 9:40 a.m. AKDT / 1:40 p.m. ET, Attorney General Garland and Senator Lisa Murkowski will participate in a roundtable with Alaska Native village chiefs in Huslia. The Attorney General will deliver brief remarks at the top.
On Tuesday, at 4:15 p.m. AKDT / 8:15 p.m. ET, Attorney General Garland and Senator Murkowski will participate in a roundtable with representatives of Alaska Native organizations in Anchorage. The Attorney General will deliver brief remarks at a pool spray at the top.
AG Garland’s visit comes just one week after U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made a similar circle of Alaska. While Garland’s visit will only be a day trip, Secretary Buttigieg’s trip was a three day affair with stops in Kotzebue, Anchorage, and Juneau. The Attorney General will meet with Alaska Native organizations at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage before departing later Tuesday evening.
Garland was nominated by former President Barack Obama for the Supreme Court seat vacated by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, but a 293-day standoff in the Senate, led by a then Republican majority eventually resulted in President Donald Trump nominating Neil Gorsuch instead.
Garland was nominated for Attorney General in January 2021 by President Joe Biden. He took office in March of that year.
