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I’m on my way to the Block Party celebrating soon to be Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Meet me there! #SheWillRise 
THE BAND IS BANDING!! #SheWillRise
The official @sistascotus statement on the confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. #SheWillRise
Herstory made. #SheWillRise
The #SCOTUSHearings compel me to explain that federal judges have known that sentencing guidelines for child pornography are outdated. I wrote about needed fixes a decade ago: scholarship.richmond.edu/jolt/vol16/iss…. Here’s a thread to give #JudgeKetanjiBrownJackson’s decisions context:
It is not shocking that #JudgeKetanjiBrownJackson has sentenced defendants below the guidelines range. In 2005, the Supreme Court mandated that the Guidelines are ADVISORY and that a judge cannot treat them as mandatory. So, where do the guidelines fit into decisions?…
Judges use the guidelines as a starting point and then MUST consider other delineated #sentencing factors to select a reasonable sentence that satisfies the purposes of punishment. Those factors include things like “the need for just punishment”.
Biden’s first slate of judicial nominations include three Black women for appeals court vacancies. These nominations are a critical step toward getting more Black woman representation on our federal courts. #SheWillRise washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is on the #SheWillRise shortlist for SCOTUS, has been nominated the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which is considered the second most powerful court in the country washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, a former longtime federal public defender & current litigator in Washington has been nominated for the Chicago-based 7th Circuit #SheWillRise washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
