Article snippet: Photo Judge Merrick B. Garland on Capitol Hill last March, soon after President Barack Obama nominated him for the Supreme Court. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — You might think it would take a toll on a person, being nominated for the Supreme Court and then having to wait around for eight months in a public state of suspended preparation, simultaneously holding out hope and seeing it drift away.But by all accounts, Judge Merrick B. Garland, thwarted nominee and high-profile casualty of Washington’s extreme political dysfunction, is doing fine, considering. Back in his old job on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where he has been chief judge since 2013, Judge Garland does not seem like a man unhinged by an ordeal.“What’s the deal with the software?” he asked a lawyer from the Drug Enforcement Administration on a recent morning. The lawyer was trying, not very successfully, to explain why the government could not produce a piece of electronic evidence sought by a drug dealer in an appeal.The judge pointed out that the agency had provided “six relatively different descriptions” of the status of the software in question. Though his questions were forensic and his manner was robust, his tone was kind and without sarcasm. Continue reading the main story Link to the full article to read more