[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 128 (Monday, July 30, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5441]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       NOMINATION OF BRITT GRANT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, first, later today, the Senate will 
vote to advance the nomination of Britt Cagle Grant, the President's 
selection to serve on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
  This Stanford Law graduate has served the people of Georgia for 6 
years, most recently as a justice on the State's supreme court. All 
eight of her fellow justices had this to say about Justice Grant in a 
letter to Chairman Grassley and Senator Feinstein:

       She is highly intelligent, [with] a breadth and depth of 
     legal experience. . . . Her first focus is always to get the 
     law right.

  They go on to write:

       Justice Grant's character and integrity is unquestioned. 
     She has an excellent reputation in the legal community [and] 
     a well-balanced judicial temperament.

  In sum, they write:

       Justice Grant displays all the qualities of an excellent 
     judge. . . . Our loss would be the Eleventh Circuit's gain.

  Justice Grant's colleagues on the Georgia Supreme Court include 
appointees of Republican Governors and Democratic Governors. They have 
seen her work up close. They have seen her legal expertise and her 
commitment to the rule of law. They have seen her conviction that--in 
her own words--``the role of judges is to interpret the law rather than 
make it.''
  Her reputation reaches beyond State lines. In another letter to our 
colleagues on the Judiciary Committee, current and former State 
solicitors general from across the country testify to her 
``congeniality,'' ``integrity and work ethic,'' and say that Justice 
Grant ``has treated colleagues, opposing counsel, and the litigants 
appearing before her with respect.''
  The understanding of a judge's role and the temperament to execute it 
is precisely the approach our constitutional order requires of our 
judges. I look forward to voting to advance Justice Grant's nomination 
later today, and I urge each of my colleagues to join me.

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