[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 19 (Monday, January 31, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S399-S400]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                  Nomination of Bridget Meehan Brennan

  Madam President, tonight, we will vote to advance the nomination of 
Bridget Brennan.
  Bridget Brennan is the current acting U.S. attorney in the Northern 
District. She has served Ohioans as an assistant U.S. attorney for over 
a decade. She has taken on complex and difficult issues. She has 
focused on cases that help make our communities safer and more just.
  Ms. Brennan has dedicated her career to making the Northern District 
of Ohio a safer place for victims of human trafficking, including 
children. She served as the lead prosecutor in the largest juvenile sex 
trafficking case in the history of the Northern District--a horrific 
case that included victims as young as 12. She achieved the country's 
first conviction for a sex trafficker's use of heroin to control his 
victims, convincing the court to recognize heroin withdrawal as a 
``threat of serious bodily harm'' for the purposes of proving coercion.
  She has been a champion for religious liberty. She successfully 
prosecuted 16 defendants in a single case, under hate crime statutes, 
for their roles in religiously motivated assaults after they viciously 
attacked members of Ohio's Amish community. She successfully prosecuted 
a man for arson and the destruction of religious property after he 
drove hours just to set fire to a mosque in northern Ohio.
  Ms. Brennan received glowing recommendations from those she has 
worked with and from those whom she has prosecuted. People who she has 
prosecuted write to her from jail, seeking advice and guidance. She is 
someone whose commitment to justice is obvious to all of those who deal 
with her.
  I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting Ms. Brennan's 
nomination.

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