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While enrolled at Harvard University, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was reportedly a member of a student group that invited a professor with a track record of antisemitic commentary to speak on campus.

The Harvard Black Students Association allegedly extended the invitation to Leonard Jeffries, the controversial City University of New York professor, during Jackson’s senior year in 1992.

Jackson, a Harvard University and Harvard Law School graduate, is President Joe Biden’s nominee to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court. Jackson was a law clerk for Breyer in the 1999-2000 time frame.

She currently serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which is regarded as the second most influential judicial forum given that it hears many cases involving the federal regulatory agencies.

“The Harvard University chapters of Jewish advocacy group Hillel, the Gay-Straight Alliance, and College Democrats themselves protested the BSA’s speaking event featuring Jeffries, according to a Feb. 4, 1992 article in the Harvard Crimson,” Fox News reported.

“Jackson’s yearbook page for her senior year listed her as a member of the BSA the year that Jeffries spoke at Harvard. It’s not clear whether she attended the speech. There is no public record of her speaking out against Jeffries’ invitation at the time,” the news outlet added.

The Jeffries invite was approximately 30 years ago, and guilt by association, however, is a technique that the Democrats typically deploy against Republican nominees.

According to the left-leaning Anti-Defamation League, “Leonard Jeffries, the former head of the Black Studies Department at the City College of CUNY, and a professor there since 1972, has espoused racist and anti-Semitic views and theories since at least the early 1980s when his comments — made while he was department head — began to attract public attention.”

CUNY removed him as department chair, which prompted a long-running legal battle, with the courts, in the end, upholding his dismissal.

U.S. Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) along with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and former Congressman Trey Gowdy had recommended Judge Michelle Childs for the Supreme Court.

At Clyburn’s urging, Biden promised to nominate a black woman for the next Supreme Court vacancy. Although Childs apparently made it to Biden’s shortlist, she likely never had a chance because the left-wing activist cohort perceived her as a moderate.

Fox News separately reported that Judge Jackson has a “judicial record that includes high-profile rulings later overruled by higher courts.”

Unless something emerges during the confirmation hearings scheduled to begin on March 21 (and again, 11th-hour revelations only seem to occur with a GOP president’s nominee,) Democrats appear to have enough votes to confirm Jackson.

On a more contemporary matter, influential George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley recommends that Jackson, if she becomes Justice Jackson, recuse herself from a pending case at the high court about alleged racial discrimination in the Harvard University admissions process.

Jackson is a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, one of the Ivy League institution’s two governing bodies.

“It would be profoundly inappropriate for a jurist to sit on a case for a school in which she has held a governing position and a role in setting institutional policies. This would be akin to a justice sitting on a case on oil leases for Exxon while being a member of the oil company’s board of directors,” Turley wrote about what he described as an “insurmountable” conflict of interest.

“The question now is whether Judge Jackson will address this ethical issue before or during the confirmation hearing,” he added.

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Robert Jonathan is a staff writer for BizPac Review. He is a longtime writer/editor for news aggregation websites and has also developed content in the legal and financial publishing sectors as well as for online education. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law, “a law school the basketball teams can be proud of.”

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