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Janice Rogers Brown (born May 11, 1949) is an American jurist. She served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2017 and before that, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from 1996 to 2005.
Mar 25, 2022 · A Facebook post falsely claims that Janice Rogers Brown, a former federal judge, was the first Black woman to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by Republicans. FactCheck.org debunks this claim and explains that she was blocked by Democrats in 2005 and 2006, and that she was not on the short list of potential picks for the high court.
Feb 1, 2022 · California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown speaks in a San Francisco courtroom on May 24, 2005. Brown, a Republican, was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2003 to the U.S. Court ...
Jan 28, 2022 · Brown retired from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on August 31, 2017, and has since maintained a low profile, though she was recently Berkeley Law's Jurist-in-Residence. Uncommon ...
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Mar 25, 2022 · A viral image on Facebook falsely states that Republicans nominated Janice Brown, a Black woman, to the Supreme Court and she was blocked by Joe Biden. PolitiFact fact-checks this claim and finds it to be false, as Brown was never nominated to the Supreme Court and Biden filibustered her appeals court nomination.
Mar 26, 2022 · Biden filibustered her nomination. Judge Janice Rogers Brown was her name. Never forget it,” reads another post on Twitter. But Brown was never nominated to the Supreme Court. Instead, Democratic senators, including Biden, opposed and filibustered Brown’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2003.
Mar 31, 2022 · A Facebook post falsely claims that Republicans nominated the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, but she was blocked by Biden. The woman pictured was Janice Brown, a former justice of the California Supreme Court and a D.C. Circuit judge. She was not nominated to the Supreme Court, but she was blocked by Biden from serving on the D.C. Circuit in 2005.
