Judge Jackson's membership on Harvard board prompts calls for recusal.
this month. "For that reason, Jackson will be asked in her confirmation hearing to confirm whether she will recuse herself from the Harvard case."
Jackson's six-year Harvard board term concludes on May 26, a school spokesman said. Supreme Court oral arguments in the school's case would be heard several months later. Judge Jackson, who is a member of the Board's executive committee, has not publicly addressed the apparent potential conflict or possible recusal from the Harvard case.
As a U.S. District Court judge, Jackson removed herself from at least two cases involving Harvard University, according to her written responses to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire this month. "She's been on the Harvard Board of Overseers for five years -- that's from the start of this litigation through the discovery process. The likelihood that she hasn't discussed the case while on that Board is very, very low," Isgur observed.Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, poses for a portrait, on Feb., 18, 2022, in her office at the court in Washington, D.C.