'I'm looking at the arguments, the facts and the law. Circuit Court of Appeals, Jackson told the Senate Judiciary Committee that her race would add 'value' to the bench when trying to explain how it would not play a role in her decisions. Jackson, widely thought to be Biden's top pick, was elevated from her previous post as a judge on the federal district court in Washington, D.C., where she remained from 2013-2021.ĭuring her confirmation hearing for the highly influential D.C. Matteo was a visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School last fall, where he taught a course on Torts and Regulation.ĭuring law school, he worked at NAACP LDF, Equal Justice Under Law, and the D.C. District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit. He completed clerkships with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Godi, who grew up in the Parma region of Italy, attended the Pierson College at Yale before going to law school at the Ivy League school. The law clerks who outed Godi claimed they had no knowledge of any edits made on pages of rival SCOTUS contenders. Freeman and Holly Thomas, 'to make them potentially less appealing to a left-leaning audience.' Michelle Childs, California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger, Wilhelmina Wright, Tiffany Cunningham, Arianna J.
In the past week, the user made over 20 edits to seven Wikipedia pages of potential Supreme Court nominees, including South Carolina Federal DistrictCcourt Judge J. In the another, user H2rty cut a reference to Jackson's position on an advisory board of 'a Baptist school.'īoth were portions were replaced replaced with: 'Ahead of her confirmation hearing, 'Bloomberg Law' reported that conservative activists were pointing to certain decisions by Jackson that had been reversed on appeal as a 'potential blemish on her record,' in order 'to tarnish her so she won't get picked for the Supreme Court.' Jackson's updated Wikipedia page shifts the blame for the ruling’s timing from Jackson to the D.C. The New York Times noted Jackson's 'slow pace' helped Trump 'run out the clock on the congressional oversight effort' before the 2020 election. The portion of the Wiki page detailing Jackson's most famous decision - to require former White House counsel Don McGahn to obey a congressional subpoena involving then-President Donald Trump - was altered. The most recent changes to Jackson's page were on January 30 and February 1, and involved two rulings against the Trump administration that were later overturned.
The law clerks told Politico that their former colleague had edited Jackson's Wikipedia page 'as a matter of course' for several years. He did not respond to the news outlet's multiple requests for comment. Godi, a Yale Law graduate from Italy, clerked for Jackson from October 2019 to October 2020, according to his LinkedIn. The Wikipedia user 'H2rty' was identified by a group of the judge's former law clerks as Matteo Godi, a Politico investigation revealed Friday.
A former law clerk for Supreme Court contender Ketanji Brown Jackson edited her Wikipedia page to 'paint her in a more favorable light for a liberal audience' while altering those of her competitors to make them less appealing.
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