A letter to Sen. Grassley on Jackson nomination

I appreciate that you say you will keep an open mind on the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court, unlike with the nomination of Merrick Garland or Amy Coney Barrett. Not too little time as with Barrett and much more than the many months you felt was too little for Garland. With Garland, you felt that the American people should weigh in with an election. Despite Trump’s attempt to overthrow the past election, the American people voted in unprecedented numbers to put their trust in Biden.

Recently William Burck (a prominent conservative Republican lawyer) said of Jackson that "no serious person can question her qualifications to the Court and to my mind her judicial philosophy is well within the mainstream."

Your fellow senators Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins, all confirmed Brown to her current judgeship. Would they have voted thusly if they thought she was incompetent?

You overemphasize the idea that you’ll base your vote on whether a judge tries to make the law instead of interpreting it. Whether a member of the courts is doing so or not is much more subjective than you make it out to be. It is a nice-sounding argument that you can use for whatever position you wish to take.

Please help confirm this nominee with the intent of influencing people to increase their trust in the Supreme Court and not as an opportunity to paint Democrats as radical leftists and similar politicizing remarks.

Bruce R. Bachmann

Cedar Rapids