Claim: Says Merrick Garland "authored an opinion that resulted in the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were part of a group of violent Islamist extremists the State Department had designated as terrorists."
Fact-check:  Pat Toomey's beef with Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland for freeing 'extremists'
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Cassie Owens
Date published: 2016-06-07T00:00:00