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ByStevePeoples The Associated Press PALM BEACH, FLA. The scramble to shape his ad- ministration underway, President-elect Donald Trump's team has simulta- neously begun turning its attention to raising tens of millions of dollars for fes- tivities related to his Wash- ington inauguration. Trump, who vowed dur- ing the campaign to "drain the swamp" of special in- terests corrupting Wash- ington, has set $1 million donation limits for corpo- rations and no limits for in- dividual donors, according to an official on the Pres- idential Inaugural Com- mittee with direct knowl- edge of tentative fund- raising plans. At the same time, Trump's inaugural committee will not accept money from registered lob- byists, in line with his ban on hiring lobbyists for his nascent administration. Barack Obama set stricter limits on donations for his first inauguration, in 2009, holding individual donors to $50,000 each and taking no money from cor- porations or labor unions, as well as none from lobby- ists and some other groups. Plenty of corporate execu- tives, though, gave indi- vidually and often at the maximum amount. And he opened the spigots for his 2013 inauguration, set- ting no limits on corporate or individual donations. The new details, con- firmed Thursday on the condition of anonymity be- cause the official was not authorized to disclose pri- vate deliberations, came as Trump gathered with fam- ily at his Palm Beach estate on Thanksgiving. On the eve of the na- tional holiday, the presi- dent-elect offered a prayer for unity after "a long and bruising" campaign sea- son. "Emotions are raw and tensions just don't heal overnight," Trump said in a video message on social media. He added, "It's my prayer that on this Thanks- giving we begin to heal our divisions and move forward asonecountrystrengthened by shared purpose and very, very common resolve." Unity has emerged as a common theme during Trump's limited public ap- pearances in the days since his stunning general elec- tion victory, which fol- lowed a campaign season in which he rained extraor- dinary personal attacks on his opponents in both par- ties, the media and his many Republican critics. Unity would also be a theme for the incoming president's Jan. 20 inaugu- ration, the official said. While Trump's fund- raising plans have not been completed, he is ex- pected to raise significantly more than the $43 million Obama raised for his 2013 inauguration. Taxpayers cover the cost of official ac- tivities such as the swear- ing-in, but outside dona- tions pay for the many re- lated balls and parties. Trump has focused most of his attention in the two weeks since his victory on building a White House team from scratch. He injected the first signs of diversity into his Cabinet-to-be on Wednes- day, tapping South Caro- lina Gov. Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and charter school advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Department of Education. They are the first women selected for top-level ad- ministration posts. And Haley, the daughter of In- dian immigrants, would be his first minority selection after a string of announce- ments of white men. The South Carolina gov- ernor has little foreign pol- icy experience, yet Trump praised her as "a proven dealmaker." DeVos, like Trump, is new to govern- ment but has spent decades working to change Ameri- ca's system of public edu- cation. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson on Wednesday said "an announcement is forthcoming" on his posi- tion, which would make him the first black choice — possibly as secretary of housing and urban devel- opment. But he also sug- gested he'd be thinking about it over the Thanks- giving holiday. "I feel that I can make a significant contribution particularly to making our inner cities great for every- one," Carson wrote on his Facebook page. Trump is also expected to select billionaire inves- tor Wilbur Ross Jr. to lead the Commerce Depart- ment, a senior Trump ad- viser said on condition of anonymity because the ad- viser was not authorized to disclose internal delibera- tions. The 78-year-old Ross, who is white, is chairman and chief strategy officer of private-equity firm W.L. Ross & Co., which has spe- cialized in buying failing companies. TRANSITION Trump's team to raise millions for Jan. 20 events By Jessica Gresko The Associated Press WASHINGTON Judge Mer- rick Garland will soon put on his black judicial robe for the first time in months. The bad news for President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court is that Garland's going back to hearing cases at his old job, not the high court. Garland now joins a small group of people nominated but not confirmed to the Su- preme Court, and there's no script for how to act as an unsuccessful nominee. As the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Gar- land stopped h e a r i n g cases after being nom- inated by Obama in March to fill the seat of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February. Gar- land's chances of getting confirmed evaporated with Donald Trump's election as president, and the judge is expected to return to the bench at the federal court- house on Washington's Constitution Avenue. It's a building that Trump's pres- idential limousine will pass during the inauguration pa- rade in January. Lawrence Baum, a pro- fessor emeritus at Ohio State who has studied the court, said Garland proba- bly knew his confirmation would be difficult. The same day Scalia was found dead at a Texas ranch, Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc- Connell, R-Ky., said the next president should select Sca- lia's successor. Garland "had to know the odds were very much against him," said Baum, Before Garland, the last unsuccessful Supreme Court nomination was Harriet Miers, nominated by President George W. Bush to fill the seat of re- tiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 2005. Miers, who had never been a judge, ultimately withdrew as a nominee after questions from Republicans about the strength of her conservative beliefs. Now 71, she's a law- yer in private practice. Before Miers, the two previous unsuccessful nom- inees to the court were, like Garland, judges on the ap- peals court in the nation's capital. Judge Robert H. Bork was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to fill the seat of retiring Jus- tice Lewis Powell in 1987. When liberal groups mobi- lized against Bork and sen- ators voted down his nom- ination, he resigned his judgeship. Reagan's second attempt at a nomination, Douglas H. Ginsburg, didn't work out either. Ginsburg with- drew after about a week following ethical questions and the revelation that he had smoked marijuana. He never left his job as a judge, becoming chief of the cir- cuit from 2001 to 2008. SUPREME COURT NOMINEE Ga rl an d ex pe ct ed t o return to his old job Garland CAROLYNKASTER—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE President-elect Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos walk outside Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. Trump has chosen DeVos as Education Secretary in his administration. 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