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District Court
On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve as a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by retiring Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr.[1] Jackson was introduced at her December 2012 confirmation hearing by Republican Paul Ryan, a relative through marriage, who said "Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal."[2] On February 14, 2013, her nomination was reported to the full Senate by voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee.[3] She was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on March 22, 2013. She received her commission on March 26, 2013[4] and was sworn in by Justice Breyer in May 2013.[5]
During her time on the District Court, Jackson wrote multiple decisions adverse to the positions of the Trump administration. In her opinion ordering Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a legislative subpoena, she wrote "presidents are not kings".[6] Jackson handled a number of challenges to executive agency actions that raised questions of administrative law. She also issued rulings in several cases that gained particular political attention.[7]
Bloomberg Law reported in spring 2021 that conservative activists were pointing to certain decisions by Jackson that had been reversed on appeal as a "potential blemish on her record".[8] In 2019, Jackson ruled that provisions in three Trump executive orders conflicted with federal employee rights to collective bargaining. Her decision was reversed unanimously by the D.C. Circuit. Another 2019 decision, involving a challenge to a Department of Homeland Security decision to expand the agency's definition of which noncitizens could be deported, was also reversed by the D.C. Circuit. Nan Aron, president of the liberal Alliance for Justice, defended Jackson's record, saying Jackson "has written nearly 600 opinions and been reversed [fewer] than twelve times".[8]
- ↑ President Obama Nominates Two to the United States District Courts, (September 20, 2012)
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namednyt - ↑ President Obama Re-nominates Thirty-Three to Federal Judgeships, (January 3, 2013)
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedfjc.gov - ↑ Valencia, Milton J. Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden's pick for US Supreme Court?, The Boston Globe (February 25, 2022)
- ↑ Marimow, Ann Senate confirms D.C. Circuit nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Merrick Garland, The Washington Post (June 14, 2021)
- ↑ Savage, Charlie Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is among the leading candidates to succeed Justice Breyer., The New York Times (January 26, 2022)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Alder, Madison Circuit Pick Jackson's Reversals a Likely Target for GOP, news.bloomberglaw.com (April 28, 2021)
