IFPTE Requests Senate Judiciary Committee Advance Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Nomination for Supreme Court Justice
This week, IFPTE sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, the Committee’s Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, and all other Judiciary Committee Senators urging they vote to advance Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Nominated by President Biden in late February 2022, Judge Jackson is highly qualified nominee who is currently a a judge on the federal Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee held three days of confirmation hearings with Judge Jackson testifying. The Committee is expected to consider advancing her nomination to the Senate floor during the week of April 3rd.
IFPTE’s letter notes that, “Based on her long track record as a federal judge as well as her comments during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, we are confident that Judge Jackson will even-handedly apply the law without any bias when it comes to cases impacting workers’ rights, civil rights, and other aspects of the working lives of Americans.”
IFPTE also highlighted Judge Jackson’s service to the public, which includes her work as “a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, as a federal public defender, and was a former clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer, whom she is nominated to replace.”
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