Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson (S. Hrg. 117-422, Part 2 of 3)
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Part 2 of 3 of S. Hrg. 117-422 (Serial No. J-117-56), the Committee on the Judiciary's confirmation hearing on the nomination of Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, dated March 21, 22, 23, and 24, 2022. This part reprints the committee roster, with Richard J. Durbin as Chair and Charles E. Grassley as Ranking Member, and the contents of the full record. Witnesses listed include Joseph M. Drayton of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, Risa Goluboff of the University of Virginia, Wade Henderson of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. The contents end with a United States Sentencing Commission research report data chart on recidivism.
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[Senate Hearing 117-422]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
S. Hrg. 117-422, Part 2 of 3
CONFIRMATION HEARING
ON THE NOMINATION OF
HON. KETANJI BROWN JACKSON
TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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HEARING
before the
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
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MARCH 21, 22, 23, and 24, 2022
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Serial No. J-117-56
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PART 2 OF 3
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Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary
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S. Hrg. 117-422, Part 2 of 3
CONFIRMATION HEARING
ON THE NOMINATION OF
HON. KETANJI BROWN JACKSON
TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
=======================================================================
HEARING
before the
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
__________
MARCH 21, 22, 23, and 24, 2022
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Serial No. J-117-56
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PART 2 OF 3
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Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE
49-380 WASHINGTON : 2023
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois, Chair
PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa,
DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California Ranking Member
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Rhode Island LINDSEY O. GRAHAM, South Carolina
AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota JOHN CORNYN, Texas
CHRISTOPHER A. COONS, Delaware MICHAEL S. LEE, Utah
RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, Connecticut TED CRUZ, Texas
MAZIE K. HIRONO, Hawaii BEN SASSE, Nebraska
CORY A. BOOKER, New Jersey JOSH HAWLEY, Missouri
ALEX PADILLA, California TOM COTTON, Arkansas
JON OSSOFF, Georgia JOHN KENNEDY, Louisiana
THOM TILLIS, North Carolina
MARSHA BLACKBURN, Tennessee
Joseph Zogby, Chief Counsel and Staff Director
Kolan L. Davis, Republican Chief Counsel and Staff Director
C O N T E N T S
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March 21, 11:02 a.m.; March 22, 9:07 a.m.; March 23, 9:06 a.m.;
and March 24, 2022, 9:03 a.m.
STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Page
Blackburn, Hon. Marsha, a U.S. Senator from the State of
Tennessee...................................................... 56
Blumenthal, Hon. Richard, a U.S. Senator from the State of
Connecticut.................................................... 34
Booker, Hon. Cory A., a U.S. Senator from the State of New Jersey 45
Coons, Hon. Christopher A., a U.S. Senator from the State of
Delaware....................................................... 28
Cornyn, Hon. John, a U.S. Senator from the State of Texas........ 15
Cotton, Hon. Tom, a U.S. Senator from the State of Arkansas...... 42
Cruz, Hon. Ted, a U.S. Senator from the State of Texas........... 25
Durbin, Hon. Richard J., a U.S. Senator from the State of
Illinois:
March 21, 2022, opening statement............................ 1
March 22, 2022, opening statement............................ 67
March 23, 2022, opening statement............................ 231
March 24, 2022, opening statement............................ 371
Feinstein, Hon. Dianne, a U.S. Senator from the State of
California..................................................... 13
Graham, Hon. Lindsey O., a U.S. Senator from the State of South
Carolina....................................................... 11
Grassley, Hon. Charles E., a U.S. Senator from the State of Iowa:
March 21, 2022, opening statement............................ 5
March 23, 2022, opening statement............................ 235
Hawley, Hon. Josh, a U.S. Senator from the State of Missouri..... 37
Hirono, Hon. Mazie K., a U.S. Senator from the State of Hawaii... 39
Kennedy, Hon. John, a U.S. Senator from the State of Louisiana... 48
Klobuchar, Hon. Amy, a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota.. 22
Leahy, Hon. Patrick J., a U.S. Senator from the State of Vermont. 8
Lee, Hon. Michael S., a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah...... 19
Ossoff, Hon. Jon, a U.S. Senator from the State of Georgia....... 55
Padilla, Hon. Alex, a U.S. Senator from the State of California.. 50
Sasse, Hon. Ben, a U.S. Senator from the State of Nebraska....... 31
Tillis, Hon. Thom, a U.S. Senator from the State of North
Carolina....................................................... 52
Whitehouse, Hon. Sheldon, a U.S. Senator from the State of Rhode
Island......................................................... 17
INTRODUCERS
Fairfax, Hon. Lisa M., Presidential Professor and Co-Director,
Institute for Law & Economics, University of Pennsylvania Carey
Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania......................... 61
Griffith, Hon. Thomas B., Judge, retired, U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, DC........... 59
STATEMENTS OF THE NOMINEE
Witness List..................................................... 441
Jackson, Hon. Ketanji Brown, Nominee to serve as an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States:
March 21, 2022, statement.................................... 62
questionnaire and biographical information................... 443
attachment: question 12(a)................................... 592
attachment: question 12(b)................................... 857
attachment: question 12(c)................................... 991
attachment: question 12(d)................................... 1137
attachment: question 12(e)................................... 2046
attachment: question 13(b)................................... 2087
attachment: question 13(g)................................... 2563
attachment: question 16(e)................................... 2585
attachment: question 19...................................... 2630
STATEMENTS OF THE WITNESSES
Beatty, Hon. Joyce, a Representative in Congress from the State
of Ohio and Chair, Congressional Black Caucus.................. 392
prepared statement........................................... 2670
Drayton, Joseph M., American Bar Association, Standing Committee
on the Federal Judiciary, Washington, DC....................... 376
Goluboff, Risa, dean, Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law, and
professor of history, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
Virginia....................................................... 395
prepared statement........................................... 2673
Henderson, Wade, president and chief executive officer, The
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Washington, DC 399
prepared statement........................................... 2677
Marshall, Hon. Steve, Attorney General, State of Alabama,
Montgomery, Alabama............................................ 393
prepared statement........................................... 2709
Mascott, Jennifer, assistant professor of law and co-executive
director, C. Boyden Gray Center, Antonin Scalia Law School,
George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia................... 397
prepared statement........................................... 2685
McCullen, Eleanor, Massachusetts resident and sidewalk counselor. 400
prepared statement........................................... 2706
Rosenthal, Richard B., solo appellate lawyer, Miami, Florida, and
San Francisco, California...................................... 403
prepared statement........................................... 2696
Russell, Keisha, counsel, First Liberty Institute, Plano, Texas.. 405
prepared statement........................................... 2699
Serano, Alessandra Parisi, chief legal officer, International
Operations, Operation Underground Railroad, Anaheim, California 408
prepared statement........................................... 2704
Thomas, Frederick L., Captain, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's
Office, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and national president,
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives...... 407
prepared statement........................................... 2717
Veta, D. Jean, American Bar Association, Standing Committee on
the Federal Judiciary, Washington, DC.......................... 375
Williams, Hon. Ann Claire, Judge, retired, and American Bar
Association, Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary,
Washington, DC................................................. 373
prepared statement........................................... 2647
QUESTIONS
Questions submitted to Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson by:
Senator Blackburn............................................ 2891
Senator Cornyn............................................... 2740
Senator Cotton............................................... 2816
Senator Cruz................................................. 2750
Senator Graham............................................... 2737
Senator Grassley............................................. 2722
Senator Hawley............................................... 2794
Senator Kennedy.............................................. 2823
Senator Lee.................................................. 2744
Senator Sasse................................................ 2791
Senator Tillis............................................... 2827
ANSWERS
Responses of Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson to questions submitted
by:
Senator Blackburn............................................ 3218
Senator Cornyn............................................... 2940
Senator Cotton............................................... 3095
Senator Cruz................................................. 2967
attachment: Probation Office chart......................... 3035
Senator Graham............................................... 2935
Senator Grassley............................................. 2893
Senator Hawley............................................... 3042
Senator Kennedy.............................................. 3112
Senator Lee.................................................. 2949
Senator Sasse................................................ 3036
Senator Tillis............................................... 3126
LETTERS RECEIVED BY THE COMMITTEE REGARDING THE NOMINATION OF HON.
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE UNITED STATES
3M Indivisible--Monroe, McMinn, Meigs Counties, Tennessee, et
al., 233 Indivisible groups across the United States; April 6,
2022........................................................... 3223
9to5, National Association of Working Women, Georgia Chapter,
Atlanta, Georgia, et al., organizations committed to democratic
and economic empowerment of the people of Georgia; March 29,
2022........................................................... 3230
Aagard, Sarah, assistant public advocate, Kentucky Department of
Public Advocacy, Frankfort, Kentucky, et al., current and
former public defenders; April 1, 2022......................... 3232
Abbott, Ross, Richland County, South Carolina, et al., current
and former U.S. public defenders; March 22, 2022............... 3245
Abdallah, Nabila, California, et al., law students from across
the United States; March 31, 2022.............................. 3280
Abely, Christine, faculty fellow, New England Law, Boston,
Massachusetts, et al., women law professors from across the
United States; March 8, 2022................................... 3284
A Better Balance, New York, New York; March 17, 2022............. 3328
Abraham, David, professor of law emeritus, University of Miami
School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida, et al., professors who
teach at law schools in the State of Florida; March 23, 2022... 3330
Abrams, Hon. Robert, former Attorney General of the State of New
York, et al., former State Attorneys General, former U.S.
Senators, a current State Governor, and current State Attorneys
General from across the United States; March 10, 2022.......... 3338
Abratt, Daniela B., Thomas & LoCicero, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida,
et al., leaders in the legal communities of the State of
Florida; March 23, 2022........................................ 3346
Access Ready Inc., Pinellas Park, Florida, et al., organizations
and individuals representing the interests of individuals with
disabilities; March 18, 2022................................... 3360
Access Ready Inc., Pinellas Park, Florida, et al., organizations
and individuals representing the interests of individuals with
disabilities; April 6, 2022.................................... 3365
Adams, Aileen, former director, U.S. Department of Justice,
Office for Victims of Crime, Los Angeles, California, et al.,
victims and survivors of crime, their advocates, and providers
of critical assistance services to crime victims and survivors;
March 9, 2022.................................................. 3371
Adams, Faith, University of Mississippi School of Law, Class of
2024, University, Mississippi, et al., current law school
students and law school graduates from across the United
States; March 11, 2022......................................... 3374
Adams-Seaton, Briana, Howard University School of Law, Class of
2021, et al., graduates of the six law schools at Historically
Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU); March 7, 2022.......... 3408
Alexander, Anne, professor of law and director of legal research
and writing, University of Missouri School of Law, et al.,
lawyers and legal academics who work and teach in the State of
Missouri; March 23, 2022....................................... 3422
Allen, Alena M., interim dean and professor of law, University of
Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville, Arkansas, et al., Black
deans of law schools in the United States; March 18, 2022...... 3427
American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity (AAAED),
Washington, DC; March 22, 2022................................. 3435
American Association for Justice (AAJ), Navan Ward, Jr.,
president, Washington, DC; March 21, 2022...................... 3439
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 704,
Chicago, Illinois, et al., environmental groups and coalition
partners; March 17, 2022....................................... 3441
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations (AFL-CIO), Elizabeth H. Shuler, president; April
1, 2022........................................................ 3446
American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Randi Weingarten,
president, Washington, DC; March 21, 2022...................... 3447
Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP), Tribal
consortium with 56 federally recognized Tribes as members,
Vivian Korthuis, chief executive officer, Bethel, Alaska; March
23, 2022....................................................... 3449
Ayer, Hon. Donald B., former Deputy Attorney General of the
United States, et al., lawyers and others who served in
Republican administrations; March 3, 2022...................... 3451
Beatty, Hon. Joyce, a Representative in Congress from the State
of Ohio and Chair, Congressional Black Caucus, et al., Members
of Congress of the Congressional Black Caucus and Members of
Congress of the Democratic Women's Caucus; March 19, 2022...... 3454
Bellinger, John B., III, former legal adviser, National Security
Council and Department of State, et al., attorneys who served
on both sides of litigation for detainees at Guantanamo Bay
detention camp, Cuba; March 28, 2022........................... 3456
Bennett, James, former law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy,
et al., law clerks during the Supreme Court's October Term 1999
who worked with Judge Jackson when she served as a law clerk to
Justice Stephen Breyer; March 3, 2022.......................... 3460
Black Men Lawyers' Association (BMLA), Chicago, Illinois; March
21, 2022....................................................... 3463
Breyer, Julia M., et al., former law clerks to Judge Ketanji
Brown Jackson; March 17, 2022.................................. 3464
Burck, William A., former law clerk to Justice Anthony M.
Kennedy; February 28, 2022..................................... 3467
Butler, Rev. Jennifer, chief executive officer, Faith in Public
Life, Washington, DC, et al., faith leaders from across the
United States; March 30, 2022.................................. 3469
Catholics for Choice, Jamie L. Manson, president, Washington, DC;
March 21, 2022................................................. 3520
Center for Disability Rights (CDR), L. Dara Baldwin, MPA,
director of national policy, Rochester, New York; March 17,
2022........................................................... 3522
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), Olivia A. Golden,
executive director, Washington, DC; March 23, 2022............. 3524
Coffey, Kendall, former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of
Florida, et al., former federal prosecutors who served
throughout the State of Florida; March 22, 2022................ 3525
Coffey, Kendall, former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of
Florida, et al., former federal prosecutors who served the
State of Florida and who served South Florida; March 22, 2022.. 3530
Common Cause, Karen Hobert Flynn, president, Washington, DC;
March 17, 2022................................................. 3535
Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC), Elizabeth B. Wydra,
president, Washington, DC; March 15, 2022...................... 3538
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Robert S. McCaw,
director, government affairs department, Washington, DC; March
16, 2022....................................................... 3548
Davis, Kenya K., professor, American University, and former
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and
frontline prosecutor in the Sex Offense Domestic Violence
section, Cyber Crime, and the Child Exploitation and Human
Trafficking sections, Washington, DC; March 28, 2022........... 3551
Everytown for Gun Safety, John Feinblatt, president, and Eric
Tirschwell, executive director and chief litigation counsel,
Everytown Law, New York, New York; March 22, 2022.............. 3553
Finney, Kathryn, managing general partner and founder, Genius
Guild, Chicago, Illinois, et al., Black women business owners,
entrepreneurs, and job creators; March 21, 2022................ 3555
Ford, Hon. Aaron, Attorney General of the State of Nevada, Carson
City, Nevada, et al., State Attorneys General from across the
United States; March 15, 2022.................................. 3560
Futures Without Violence, San Francisco, California, et al.,
organizations from across the United States working to ensure
the safety and well-being of individuals; March 20, 2022....... 3564
Futures Without Violence, San Francisco, California, et al.,
victim service providers and victims and survivors of domestic
violence and sexual assault; March 20, 2022.................... 3567
Griffith, Hon. Thomas B., Judge, retired, U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, DC; February
26, 2022....................................................... 3569
Herbert, Lenese, professor of law, Howard University School of
Law, Washington, DC, et al., professors of law from across the
United States; March 14, 2022.................................. 3571
Hodge, Jamila, former Assistant U.S. Attorney, et al., former
federal prosecutors and alumni of the United States Attorney's
Office for the District of Columbia; March 30, 2022............ 3613
Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Joni Madison, interim president,
Washington, DC; March 21, 2022................................. 3618
Indivisible, Leah Greenberg, co-executive director, Washington,
DC; March 18, 2022............................................. 3620
Innocence Project, Christina Swarns, executive director, New
York, New York; March 24, 2022................................. 3621
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Dwight E.
Henninger, chief and president, Alexandria, Virginia; March 14,
2022........................................................... 3624
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
(IFPTE), Matthew S. Biggs, president, and Gay Henson,
Secretary-Treasurer, Washington, DC; March 29, 2022............ 3625
Intersections of Our Lives, a Reproductive Justice collaborative
of organizations, led by National Asian Pacific American
Women's Forum (NAPAWF), Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive
director, Chicago, Illinois; National Latina Institute for
Reproductive Justice, Lupe M. Rodriguez, executive director,
New York, New York; and In Our Own Voice: National Black
Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda, Marcela Howell, president
and chief executive officer, Washington, DC; March 18, 2022.... 3626
Jackson Lee, Hon. Sheila, a Representative in Congress from the
State of Texas and senior Member of the U.S. House of
Representatives Judiciary Committee; March 31, 2022............ 3628
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), David Inoue, executive
director, San Francisco, California; March 21, 2022............ 3632
Johnson, Hon. Jeh Charles, former Secretary, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, Hon. Loretta E. Lynch, former U.S. Attorney
General, and J.W. Crawford, III, Vice Admiral, Judge Advocate
General Corps, USN, retired, et al., national security lawyers'
perspectives on Judge Jackson's representation of several
detainees from Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Guantanamo Bay
Naval Base, in the period 2005-2009; March 16, 2022............ 3634
Jones, Joshua Aaron, law professor, California Western School of
Law, San Diego, California, et al., LGBTQ+ law professors and
allies; March 4, 2022.......................................... 3637
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Damon Hewitt,
president and executive director, Washington, DC, et al.; March
30, 2022....................................................... 3646
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The, Washington,
DC, et al.; March 17, 2022..................................... 3652
League of Conservation Voters (LCV), Gene Karpinski, president,
Washington, DC; March 17, 2022................................. 3662
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Sindy M.
Benavides, chief executive officer, Washington, DC; April 4,
2022........................................................... 3664
Levi, David F., president, American Law Institute (ALI), and
director, Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School, Durham,
North Carolina; March 2, 2022.................................. 3665
Lynch, Hon. Loretta E., former Attorney General of the United
States and former U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of New York,
et al., former senior lawyers in the U.S. Department of
Justice; March 9, 2022......................................... 3667
Martin, Areva, civil rights attorney, nonprofit leader, and
working mother, and Ginger McKnight-Chavers, attorney, author,
and working mother, et al., African-American women representing
a cross-section of ages and socioeconomic, familial, national,
and professional backgrounds; March 10, 2022................... 3671
Menefee, Hon. Christian D., Harris County Attorney, Houston,
Texas, et al., Black attorneys licensed to practice law in
Texas; March 18, 2022.......................................... 3678
Motley, Joel, son of Constance Baker Motley, former NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund attorney and lead strategist on
Brown v. Board of Education litigation, New York, New York;
March 31, 2022................................................. 3681
NARAL Pro-Choice America, Mini Timmaraju, president, Washington,
DC; March 18, 2022............................................. 3682
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), Priya
Purandare; Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), John C.
Yang; and National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA),
Gregg Orton; Washington, DC, et al.; March 18, 2022............ 3686
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP), Derrick Johnson, president and chief executive
officer, Baltimore, Maryland; March 18, 2022................... 3688
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP), Derrick Johnson, president and chief executive
officer, Baltimore, Maryland; April 5, 2022.................... 3704
National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), Karen M.
Richardson, executive director, Chicago, Illinois, letter and
statement; March 19, 2022...................................... 3720
National Bar Association (NBA), Hon. Carlos Moore, president and
chairman, Washington, DC; March 31, 2022....................... 3724
National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA), Simone Yhap,
national chair and chief executive officer, Washington, DC;
February 25, 2022.............................................. 3731
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), Denver,
Colorado; March 18, 2022....................................... 3733
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) and Black
Women's Roundtable, Melanie L. Campbell, president and chief
executive officer, NCBCP, and national convener, Black Women's
Roundtable, Washington, DC; April 2, 2022...................... 3735
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), Fawn Sharp,
president, Washington, DC, and Native American Rights Fund
(NARF), John E. Echohawk, executive director, Boulder,
Colorado; March 28, 2022....................................... 3738
National Congress of Black Women (NCBW), Judge Doris Smith-
Ribner, retired, chairperson emeritus, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, et al.; March 29, 2022........................... 3740
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Jody Rabhan, chief
policy officer, Washington, DC; March 11, 2022................. 3741
National Education Association (NEA), Rebecca S. Pringle,
president, Washington, DC; March 25, 2022...................... 3743
National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), Laura M. Flegel,
legislative and public policy director, and Jeffrey A. Mittman,
executive director, Concord, California; March 27, 2022........ 3745
National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), Kenneth Romero, chair
and executive director, National Hispanic Caucus of State
Legislators (NHCSL), et al., Washington, DC; April 6, 2022..... 3748
National Organization for Women (NOW), Christian F. Nunes,
president, Washington, DC; March 24, 2022...................... 3750
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives
(NOBLE), Alexandria, Virginia; February 28, 2022............... 3751
National Organization of Concerned Black Men (CBM), Dr. Karen
McRae, national president and chief executive officer,
Washington, DC; March 21, 2022................................. 3752
National Partnership for Women & Families, Jocelyn Frye,
president, Washington, DC; March 18, 2022...................... 3754
National Urban League (NUL), Marc H. Morial, president and chief
executive officer, New York, New York, and Joi O. Chaney,
executive director, Washington Bureau, and senior vice
president, policy & advocacy, Washington, DC; March 17, 2022... 3758
National Women's Law Center, Fatima Goss Graves, president and
chief executive officer, Washington, DC; March 31, 2022........ 3760
National Women's Law Center, Washington, DC, et al., advocates
for gender justice in the courts, in public policy, and in
society; March 31, 2022........................................ 3764
National Women's Law Center, Washington, DC; Women's Bar
Association of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC; and
California Women Lawyers, Sacramento, California; March 31,
2022........................................................... 3769
NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, Mary J. Novak,
executive director, Washington, DC; March 29, 2022............. 3792
Oglala Sioux Tribe, Kevin Killer, president, Pine Ridge, South
Dakota; March 11, 2022......................................... 3793
Onwuachi-Willig, Angela, dean, and Ryan Roth Gallo & Ernest J.
Gallo Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law,
Boston, Massachusetts, et al., Black women law professors;
March 18, 2022................................................. 3795
Organized Village of Saxman (OVS), a federally recognized
sovereign Tribe, Joe Williams, Jr., president, Saxman and
Ketchikan, Alaska; April 4, 2022............................... 3812
Pass Her the Gavel, a network of Black law students and Black
professionals; March 26, 2022.................................. 3813
People For the American Way (PFAW), Marge Baker, executive vice
president, Washington, DC; March 30, 2022...................... 3814
People's Parity Project (PPP), Molly Coleman, executive director,
and Tristin Brown, policy and program director; March 21, 2022. 3822
Physicians for Reproductive Health (PRH), Dr. Kristyn Brandi, MD,
MPH, board chair, Hartsdale, New York; March 21, 2022.......... 3824
Racicot, Marc, former Governor and former Attorney General,
Missoula, Montana, et al., lawyers from the State of Montana;
March 30, 2022................................................. 3826
Racine, Karl A., Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General
for the District of Columbia (OAG), Washington, DC; March 31,
2022........................................................... 3829
Resources Legacy Fund, Avi Garbow, president, Sacramento,
California; March 21, 2022..................................... 3830
Schwartz, Paul H., Boulder, Colorado, October 1994 Term of Court,
et al., former law clerks to Justice Stephen G. Breyer; March
16, 2022....................................................... 3832
Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Mary Kay Henry,
international president, Washington, DC; March 18, 2022........ 3838
Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Dwayne M. Murray, Esq., Grand Sire
Archon, Atlanta, Georgia; letter and a 2022 Resolution; March
25, 2022....................................................... 3840
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Dr. Bernard
LaFayette, Jr., chairman, Board of Directors, and Dr. Charles
Steele, Jr., president and chief executive officer, Atlanta,
Georgia; March 31, 2022........................................ 3843
Thomson, J. Scott, former Camden County Police Chief, Camden, New
Jersey, et al., members of the law enforcement community; March
7, 2022........................................................ 3844
Toussaint, Etienne C., assistant professor of law, University of
South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina, et al.,
Black male law deans and law professors of United States law
schools; March 14, 2022........................................ 3849
United States Black Chambers (USBC), Ron Busby, president and
chief executive officer, Washington, DC; March 2, 2022......... 3861
United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC), Ramiro A.
Cavazos, president and chief executive officer, Washington, DC;
March 8, 2022.................................................. 3862
Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE), Desiree S. Luckey,
Esq., Director of Policy, Washington, DC; March 31, 2022....... 3864
Women's Rights and Empowerment Network (WREN), Columbia, South
Carolina, et al.; March 30, 2022............................... 3866
Young Black Lawyers' Organizing Coalition (YBLOC), Abdul Dosunmu,
founder and chief strategist, New York, New York; March 17,
2022........................................................... 3869
YWCA USA, Margaret Mitchell, chief executive officer, Washington,
DC; March 23, 2022............................................. 3871
MISCELLANEOUS SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD
African American Mayors Association (AAMA), Hon. Sylvester
Turner, Mayor, City of Houston, Texas, and AAMA president,
Washington, DC, statement...................................... 3873
Blackburn, Hon. Marsha, a U.S. Senator from the State of
Tennessee, and Tommy Tuberville, a U.S. Senator from the State
of Alabama; a letter to Rebecca S. Pringle, president, National
Education Association (NEA), with regard to New Business Item 2
and New Business Item 39, considered and adopted during the
NEA's 2021 Representative Assembly; July 19, 2021, letter...... 3875
Cato Institute, Clark M. Neily, III, senior vice president for
legal studies, Washington, DC, statement....................... 3876
Coe, Aebra, and Chris Villani, ``1st Circ. Judge Selya Says
Jackson Will Be `Balanced','' Law360, February 25, 2022,
article........................................................ 3880
Doiron, Sarah, `` `A Terrific Addition': Biden's Supreme Court
Nominee Worked Alongside RI Judge,'' WPRI.com, posted February
25, 2022, and updated March 22, 2022, article.................. 3882
Family Equality, Shelbi Day, chief policy officer, New York, New
York, email correspondence statement........................... 3885
Fitzpatrick, Edward, ``Supreme Court Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown
Jackson Reminds Others of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,'' The Boston
Globe, March 22, 2022, article................................. 3887
Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Patrick Yoes, president,
National Fraternal Order of Police, Washington, DC, statement.. 3891
Gertner, Hon. Nancy, Judge, retired, U.S. District Court of
Massachusetts, and senior lecturer of law, Harvard Law School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, et al., former U.S. district and
appellate judges address criticisms leveled at Judge Ketanji
Brown Jackson's record on child pornography sentencing, March
21, 2022, letter............................................... 3892
Gertner, Hon. Nancy, Judge, retired, U.S. District Court of
Massachusetts, and senior lecturer of law, Harvard Law School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, et al., former U.S. district and
appellate judges address the release of pre-sentence reports
relating to defendants sentenced by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
for the crime of possession of images of child pornography,
March 28, 2022, letter......................................... 3894
Harvard Law Review, ``Prevention Versus Punishment: Toward a
Principled Distinction in the Restraint of Released Sex
Offenders,'' Vol. 109, No. 7 (May 1996), pp. 1711-1728, article 3896
Henry, Mary Kay, international president, Service Employees
International Union (SEIU), Washington, DC, et al., a coalition
of elected labor leaders of 27 unions and worker organizations
representing working people providing essential services,
statement...................................................... 3914
Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA), Washington, DC,
statement...................................................... 3916
Immigration Hub, Sergio Gonzales, executive director, Washington,
DC, statement.................................................. 3918
Jones, Hon. Doug, a former U.S. Senator from the State of
Alabama, ``Vivian Malone Jones: Alabama Women's Hall of Fame''
recognizes Vivian Malone Jones at the time of her posthumous
induction into the State of Alabama Women's Hall of Fame Class
of 2021, tribute speech........................................ 3921
Luttig, J. Michael, former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Fourth Circuit, statement...................................... 3933
Mulvaney, Katie, ``Here's What RI's Legal Community Says About
Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson,'' The Providence
Journal, February 25, 2022, article............................ 3934
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), Janai S.
Nelson, president and director-counsel, et al., New York, New
York, statement................................................ 3938
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), ``The Civil
Rights Record of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson,'' report......... 3940
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), Karen Stone,
vice president, public policy and government relations,
Washington, DC, statement...................................... 3979
Tushnet, Mark, ``Parents Involved and the Struggle for Historical
Memory,'' Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 91, No. 2 (April 2016), pp.
493-503, article............................................... 3981
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Hon. Charles E.
Grassley, a U.S. Senator from the State of Iowa and Ranking
Member, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee; Hon. Lamar Smith, a
Representative in Congress from the State of Texas and
Chairman, U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee;
and Hon. F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., a Representative in
Congress from the State of Wisconsin and Chairman, U.S. House
Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland
Security; a letter to Hon. Patti B. Saris, Chairwoman, U.S.
Sentencing Commission, with regard to a Public Hearing on
Federal Child Pornography Crimes on February 15, 2012; February
14, 2012, letter............................................... 3992
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Hon. Charles E.
Grassley, a U.S. Senator from the State of Iowa and Ranking
Member, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, et al.; a letter to
Hon. Richard J. Durbin, a U.S. Senator from the State of
Illinois and Chair, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, with
regard to providing documents to the Republican Members of the
Senate Judiciary Committee in connection with President Biden's
nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; March 22,
2022, letter................................................... 3996
United States Sentencing Commission, ``Recidivism and Federal
Sentencing Policy: Overall; Offender Characteristics; Crime
Types; and Sentence Length,'' research report data chart....... 3999
A P P E N D I X - Continued
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