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S. HRG. 113–515, Part 4 CONFIRMATION HEARINGS ON FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS HEARINGS BEFORETHE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION JULY 10, JULY 24, AND SEPTEMBER 11, 2013 Serial No. J–113–1. Part 4 PART 4 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary ( C O N F I R M A T I O N H E A R I N G S O N F E D E R A L A P P O I N T M E N T S S. HRG. 113–515, Part 4 CONFIRMATION HEARINGS ON FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS HEARINGS BEFORETHE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION JULY 10, JULY 24, AND SEPTEMBER 11, 2013 Serial No. J–113–1, Part 4 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 94–843 PDF WASHINGTON : 2015 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont, Chairman DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California CHUCK GRASSLEY, Iowa, Ranking Member CHUCK SCHUMER, New York ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah RICHARD DURBIN, Illinois JEFF SESSIONS, Alabama SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Rhode Island LINDSEY GRAHAM, South Carolina AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota JOHN CORNYN, Texas AL FRANKEN, Minnesota MICHAEL S. LEE, Utah CHRISTOPHER A. COONS, Delaware TED CRUZ, Texas RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, Connecticut JEFF FLAKE, Arizona MAZIE HIRONO, Hawaii BRUCE A. COHEN, Chief Counsel and Staff Director KOLAN DAVIS, Republican Chief Staff Director (II) C O N T E N T S WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS Page Leahy, Hon. Patrick J., a U.S. Senator from The State of Vermont ................... 6 prepared statement .......................................................................................... 227 Schumer, Hon. Charles E., a U.S. Senator from the State of New York ............ 7 Grassley, Hon. Chuck, a U.S. Senator from the State of Iowa ............................ 9 PRESENTERS Warner, Hon. Mark R., a United States Senator from the State of Virginia, presenting Patricia Ann Millett, Nominee to be Circuit Judge for the Dis- trict of Columbia Circuit ...................................................................................... 1 Kaine, Hon. Tim, a United States Senator from the State of Virginia, pre- senting Patricia Ann Millett, Nominee to be Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit .............................................................................................. 3 Cochran, Hon. Thad, a United States Senator from the State of Mississippi, presenting Debra M. Brown, Nominee to be District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi .......................................................................................... 4 Wicker, Hon. Roger, a United States Senator from the State of Mississippi, presenting Debra M. Brown, Nominee to be District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi .......................................................................................... 5 Schumer, Hon. Charles E., a U.S. Senator from the State of New York, presenting Gregory Howard Woods, Nominee to be District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and Elizabeth A. Wolford, Nominee to be District Judge for the Western District of New York .................................. 96 STATEMENTS OF THE NOMINEES Millett, Patricia Ann, Nominee to be Circuit Judge for the District of Colum- bia Circuit ............................................................................................................. 12 Biographical Information ................................................................................. 13 Woods, Gregory Howard, Nominee to be District Judge for the Southern District of New York ............................................................................................ 98 Biographical Information ................................................................................. 99 Wolford, Elizabeth A., Nominee to be District Judge for the Western District of New York .......................................................................................................... 135 Biographical Information ................................................................................. 136 Brown, Debra M., Nominee to be District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi ........................................................................................................ 181 Biographical Information ................................................................................. 182 QUESTIONS Questions for all nominees submitted by Senator Ted Cruz ............................... 228 Questions for Patricia Ann Millett submitted by Senator Chuck Grassley ........ 229 Questions for Gregory Woods submitted by Senator Chuck Grassley ................ 234 Questions for Elizabeth Wolford submitted by Senator Chuck Grassley ............ 237 Questions for Debra M. Brown submitted by Senator Chuck Grassley .............. 239 ANSWERS Responses of Patricia Ann Millett to questions submitted by Senator Cruz ...... 241 (III) IV Page Responses of Patricia Ann Millett to questions submitted by Senator Grass- ley .......................................................................................................................... 245 Responses of Gregory Woods to questions submitted by Senator Cruz .............. 259 Responses of Gregory Woods to questions submitted by Senator Grassley ........ 262 Responses of Elizabeth Wolford to questions submitted by Senator Cruz ......... 269 Responses of Elizabeth Wolford to questions submitted by Senator Grassley ... 272 Responses of Debra M. Brown to questions submitted by Senator Cruz ............ 276 Responses of Debra M. Brown to questions submitted by Senator Grassley ..... 279 MISCELLANEOUS SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD Ashley N. Wicks, Magnolia Bar President, Magnolia Bar Association, Jackson, Mississippi, July 15, 2013, letter ........................................................................ 283 Reuben V. Anderson and Fred Banks, Jr., Phelps Dunbar, Jackson, Mis- sissippi, July 17, 2013, letter .............................................................................. 284 Azande W. Williams, Treasurer, Metro Jackson Black Women Lawyers Asso- ciation, Jackson, Mississippi, July 17, 2013, letter ........................................... 286 Michael A. Berk, Director, School of Architecture, Mississippi State Univer- sity, July 15, 2013, letter ..................................................................................... 287 Judy Perry Martinez, Chair, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, May 17, 2013, letter ............................................................................................. 288 Robin S. Conrad, Past Executive Vice President, National Chamber Litigation Center, June 24, 2013, letter .............................................................................. 290 Floyd Abrams, Eric Angel, Jeffrey A. Bartos, Stuart M. Benjamin, James A. Bensfield, Dori Bernstein, Tim Broas, Megan L. Brown, Thomas M. Buchanan, Kathryn Buchar, Plato Cacheris, Ty Cobb, Ronald K.L. Collins, Robert Corn-Revere, Mark S. Davies, David DeBruin, Bernard J. DiMuro, Viet D. Dinh, John M. Dowd, H. Bartow Farr, Jeffrey L. Fisher, Stuart M. Gerson, Scott D. Gilbert, Steven H. Goldblatt, J. Warren Gorrell, Jr., Thomas C. Green, Jeffrey T. Green, Ross Guverman, Jonathan Hacker, Adam S. Hakki, James Hamilton, Pamela Harris, Beth Heifetz, David Honig, John Hundley, William H. Hurd, Peter B. Hutt II, Phil Inglima, Vicki C. Jackson, Michael D. Jones, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Riyaz Kanji, Robert Kaplan, Pamela S. Karlan, Judith S. Kaye, Christine N. Kerns, Ben Klubes, Kim Koopersmith, Kathryn E. Kovacs, Martin Lederman, Mi- chael N. Levy, Emmett B. Lewis, III, Timothy K. Lewis, Robert M. Loeb, Mark MacDougall, Andrew H. Marks, Lisa T. McElroy, Bruce R. McLean, Paul R. Michel, Steven Molo, Monica T. Monday, Gary P. Naftalis, Danny Onorato, Gary A. Orseck, Spencer A. Overton, Aaron M. Panner, Anthony T. Pierce, Arti K. Rai, Bert Rein, Lawrence S. Robbins, Michele A. Roberts, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Kevin Russell, Amar D. Sarwal, David Schertler, Eric Schnapper, James E. Sharp, Anthony Shelley, Eric A. Shumsky, Jona- than R. Siegel, Neil S. Siegel, Paul M. Smith, Mary Lou Soller, Gloria Solomon, Grace E. Speights, Kim Sperduto, Danielle Spinelli, Beth Ste- phens, Cate Stetson, Brendan V. Sullivan, Jr., Kathleen M. Sullivan, Wil- liam W. Taylor, Dick Thornburgh, John B. Tieder, Jr., Laurence H. Tribe, Gloria C. Tristani, Rebecca K. Troth, Bob Trout, Alan E. Untereiner, Ste- phen I. Vladeck, Roger E. Warin, Jonathan M. Weisgall, Stephen Wermiel, John M. Whealan, Benjamin F. Wilson, Nancy Winkelman, Brian Wolfman, Emily M. Yinger, Hugh F. Young, Jr., Roger E. Zuckerman, July 2, 2013, letter ...................................................................................................................... 292 Jefferson Keel, NCAI President, National Council of American Indians, July 2, 2013, letter ....................................................................................................... 302 Barbara A. Arnwine, Executive Director and Jon M. Greenbaum, Chief Coun- sel, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, July 3, 2015, letter ............................................................................................... 304 Stuart W. Bower, Jr., July 2, 2013, letter ............................................................. 306 Seth P. Waxman, former Solicitor General, July 3, 2013, letter ......................... 308 Dan Schweitzer, Supreme Court Counsel for the National Association of At- torneys General, Bethesda, Maryland, July 3, 2013, letter .............................. 310 Lisa Soronen, Executive Director, State and Local Legal Center (SLLC), July 3, 2013, letter ....................................................................................................... 312 Jessica E. Adler, President, Women’s Bar Association of the District of Colum- bia, Washington, DC, July 8, 2013, letter .......................................................... 314 Silvia Burley, Chairperson, California Valley Miwok Tribe, Stockton, Cali- fornia, July 8, 2013, letter ................................................................................... 317 V Page Leonard Forsman, Chairman, The Suquamish Tribe, Suquamish, Washington, July 8, 2013, letter ............................................................................................... 318 Carl H. McNair, Jr., Major General, U.S. Army (RET), Springfield, Virginia, July 8, letter ......................................................................................................... 319 Lilly Ledbetter, July 8, 2013, letter ....................................................................... 320 Hon. Timothy K. Lewis, Washington, DC, July 8, 2013, letter ........................... 322 Carter G. Phillips and Peter D. Keisler, July 8, 2013, letter ............................... 324 David Bernhard, Judicial Screening Committee, Hispanic Bar Association of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, July 9, 2013, letter .. 325 Chuck Canterbury, National President, Fraternal Order of Police, Wash- ington, DC, July 9, 2013, letter ........................................................................... 331 David Diaz, Co-Chair, Endorsements Committee, Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC, July 9, 2013, letter .................. 332 Donald B. Ayer, Lisa Blatt, Richard P. Bress, Louis R. Cohen, Edward C. DuMont, Roy Englert, Mark Evans, H. Bartow Farr, III, James S. Feldman, David C. Frederick, Irving L. Gornstein, Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, Toby Heytens, Dan Himmelfarb, Alan Horowitz, William M. Jay, Alan Jenkins, Neal Katyal, Michael K. Kellogg, Jeffrey A. Lamken, Paul J. Larkin, Jr., Richard J. Lazarus, Michael R. Lazerwitz, Robert A. Long, Maureen E. Mahoney, Ronald Mann, Deanne E. Maynard, Carter G. Phillips, Andrew J. Pincus, Lawrence S. Robbins, Charles A. Rothfeld, David B. Salmons, Richard H. Seamon, Stephen M. Shapiro, Barbara D. Underwood, Paul R.Q. Wolfson, Christopher J. Wright, July 9, 2013, letter ................................ 334 Chuck Wexler, Executive Director, Police Executive Research Forum, Wash- ington, DC, July 9, 2013, letter ........................................................................... 337 John E. Page, President, National Bar Association, Washington, DC, July 10, 2013, letter ..................................................................................................... 338 John E. Echohawk, Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund, Wash- ington, DC, July 11, 2013, letter ......................................................................... 339 Maryse C. Allen, President, Virginia Women Attorneys Association, July 17, 2013, letter ............................................................................................................ 341 Judith E. Schaeffer, Vice President, Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, DC, July 17, 2013, letter ............................................................... 343 Judy Perry Martinez, Chair, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, June 4, 2013, Millett letter ................................................................................. 345 Judy Perry Martinez, Chair, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, May 17, 2013, Wolford letter ............................................................................... 347 Judy Perry Martinez, Chair, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, May 14, 2013, Woods letter ................................................................................. 349 VI Page WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2013 STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS Page Leahy, Hon. Patrick J., a U.S. Senator from the State of Vermont .................... 351 prepared statement .......................................................................................... 691 Grassley, Hon. Chuck, a U.S. Senator from the State of Iowa ............................ 355 PRESENTERS Baucus, Hon. Max, a U.S. Senator from the State of Montana, presenting Brian Morris, Nominee to be District Judge for the District of Montana, and Susan P. Watters, Nominee to be District Judge for the District of Montana ................................................................................................................ 353 Shaheen, Hon. Jeanne, a U.S. Senator from the State of New Hampshire, presenting Landya B. McCafferty, Nominee to be District Judge for the District of New Hampshire ................................................................................. 358 Murphy, Hon. Christopher, a U.S. Senator from the State of Connecticut, presenting Jeffrey Alker Meyer, Nominee to be District Judge for the Dis- trict of Connecticut ............................................................................................... 359 STATEMENTS OF THE NOMINEES Pillard, Cornelia T.L., Nominee to be Circuit Judge for the District of Colum- bia Circuit ............................................................................................................. 362 Biographical Information ................................................................................. 364 Morris, Hon. Brian, Nominee to be District Judge for the District of Montana 447 Biographical Information ................................................................................. 448 Watters, Hon. Susan P., Nominee to be District Judge for the District of Montana ................................................................................................................ 503 Biographical Information ................................................................................. 504 Meyer, Jeffrey Alker, Nominee to be District Judge for the District of Con- necticut .................................................................................................................. 556 Biographical Information ................................................................................. 557 McCafferty, Landya B., Nominee to be District Judge for the District of New Hampshire .................................................................................................... 626 Biographical Information ................................................................................. 627 QUESTIONS Questions for all nominees submitted by Senator Ted Cruz ............................... 693 Questions for Cornelia Pillard submitted by Senator Chuck Grassley ............... 694 Questions for Cornelia Pillard submitted by Senator Jeff Sessions .................... 703 Questions for Brian Morris submitted by Senator Chuck Grassley .................... 707 Questions for Susan P. Watters submitted by Senator Chuck Grassley ............ 710 Questions for Jeffrey Alker Meyer submitted by Senator Chuck Grassley ........ 713 Questions for Landya B. McCafferty submitted by Senator Chuck Grassley ..... 716 ANSWERS Responses of Cornelia Pillard to questions submitted by Senator Grassley ...... 718 Responses of Cornelia Pillard to questions submitted by Senator Sessions ....... 741 Responses of Cornelia Pillard to questions submitted by Senator Cruz ............. 749 Responses of Brian Morris to questions submitted by Senator Grassley ........... 753 Responses of Brian Morris to questions submitted by Senator Cruz .................. 761 Responses of Susan P. Watters to questions submitted by Senator Grassley .... 764 Responses of Susan P. Watters to questions submitted by Senator Cruz .......... 770 Responses of Jeffrey Alker Meyer to questions submitted by Senator Grassley 772 Responses of Jeffrey Alker Meyer to questions submitted by Senator Cruz ...... 781 Responses of Landya B. McCafferty to questions submitted by Senator Grass- ley .......................................................................................................................... 784 Responses of Landya B. McCafferty to questions submitted by Senator Cruz .. 790 VII Page MISCELLANEOUS SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD William T. Coleman, Jr., Senior Partner and Senior Counselor, O’Melveny and Myers LLP, Washington, DC, June 4, 2013, letter .................................... 793 John M. Townsend, Partner, Hughes Hubbard and Reed LLP, July 8, 2013, letter ...................................................................................................................... 795 William S. Sessions, Former Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Wash- ington, DC, July 9, 2013, letter ........................................................................... 797 Richard Bierschbach, Harold Bruff, Jonathan Cedarbaum, Walter E. Dellinger, Joseph R. Guerra, Pamela A. Harris, Clare Huntington, Dawn E. Johnsen, Martin S. Lederman, Robin Lenhardt, Randolph D. Moss, Trevor Morrison, Beth Nolan, Todd Peterson, H. Jefferson Powell, Jeannie S. Rhee, Teresa Wynn Reseborough, Richard Shiffrin, David A. Strauss, William M. Treanor, Jay Wexler, July 17, 2013, letter .................................... 799 Dean William M. Treanor, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, July 17, 2013, letter ..................................................................................... 802 Robin Abrams, Martha Boersch, Jeffrey Bornstein, Sean Coffey, Miles Ehr- lich, Jamie Gorelick, Michele Hirshman, Matthew Jacobs, David Kris, Carl H. Loewenson, Jr., Daniel Marcus, Mark Matthews, Julie Rose O’Sullivan, David W. Ogden, Richard Olderman, Lisa Kate Osofsky, Karen Popp, Ismail Ramsey, Stephen C. Robinson, Paul Rosenzweig, John Savarese, Howard Shapiro, Paul Shechtman, Mark Stein, Beth Wilkinson, July 17, 2013, letter ............................................................................................................ 804 Donald B. Ayer, J. Scott Ballenger, H. Christopher Bartolomucci, Lisa S. Blatt, Richard P. Bress, Louis R. Cohen, Drew S. Days III, Walter Dellinger, Edward C. DuMont, H. Bartow Farr III, James A. Feldman, Jeffrey Fisher, David C. Frederick, Jerrold J. Ganzfried, Irv Gornstein, Michael H. Gottesman, Jonathan D. Hacker, Mark E. Haddad, Pamela S. Karlan, Neal Katyal, Stephen B. Kinnaird, Jeffrey A. Lamken, Richard J. Lazarus, Robert A. Long, Ronald Mann, Alan B. Morrison, Carter G. Phillips, Andrew J. Pincus, Lawrence S. Robbins, Charles A. Rothfeld, Kevin Russell, Paul M. Smith, Catherine E. Stetson, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Laurence H. Tribe, Barbara D. Underwood, Lawrence G. Wallace, Seth P. Waxman, Paul R.Q. Wolfson, Christopher J. Wright, July 17, 2013, letter ...................................................................................................................... 809 Viet D. Dinh, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law, Washington, DC, July 18, 2013, letter ..................................................................................................... 814 Nancy R. Adams, Julia J. Cleckley, Gina S. Farrisee, Evelyn ‘‘Pat’’ Foote, Claudia J. Kennedy, Dennis J. Laich, Gale S. Pollock, Wilma L. Vaught, Mary A. Baldy-Klotz, Margarethe Cammermeyer, Marilla J. Cushman, Sherry de Vries, Debrah Feil, Elizabeth W. Fleming, Norma L. Garrett, Lawrence Korb, Cindy McNally, Robert (Mac) McNally, Paul Mango, Lory Manning, Debra D. Mark, Stephanie Marshall, Joellen Oslund, Dwayne Oslund, Michael E. Pheneger, Dawn S. Rucker, Katherine Scheirman, Loren Simpson, Genie Davison Sorensen, Alfonse P. Squitiere, Glenna L. Tinney, July 22, 2013, letter ............................................................................... 816 Jessica E. Adler, President, Women’s Bar Association of the District of Colum- bia, July 22, 2013, letter ...................................................................................... 819 Wade Henderson, President and CEO, Nancy Zirkin, Executive Vice Presi- dent, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Washington, DC, July 23, 2013, letter ..................................................................................... 822 Nancy Duff Campbell, Co-President, Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President, National Women’s Law Center, Washington, DC, July 23, 2013, letter ......... 824 Bree Adams Guiterman, Kylie Lowe, Elizabeth C. Dobbins, Matthew Steven Lowe, Arthur Bradford Morrill IV, Robert L. Fendley, Kylie Morgan Lowe, Samantha D. Henke, Raevon Pulliam, July 23, 2013, letter ............................ 826 Pamela Berman, President, National Conference of Women’s Bar Associa- tions, July 24, 2013, letter ................................................................................... 828 Peter M. Reyes, Jr., HNBA National President, Hispanic National Bar Asso- ciation, Washington, DC, August 7, 2013, letter ............................................... 831 Douglas T. Kendall, President, Judith E. Schaeffer, Vice President, Constitu- tional Accountability Center, Washington, DC, September 9, 2013, letter ..... 833 Wade Henderson, President and CEO, Nancy Zirkin, Executive Vice Presi- dent, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Washington, DC, September 11, 2013, letter ........................................................................... 835 VIII Page Shanna L. Smith, President and CEO, National Fair Housing Alliance, Wash- ington, DC, September 18 2013, letter ............................................................... 837 Judy Perry Martinez, Chair, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, June 4, 2013, Pillard letter ................................................................................. 839 Judy Perry Martinez, Chair, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, May 29, 2013, Morris letter ................................................................................. 841 Judy Perry Martinez, Chair, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, May 29, 2013, Watters letter .............................................................................. 843 Kimberly A. Knox, President, Connecticut Bar Association, New Britain, Con- necticut, August 1, 2013, letter ........................................................................... 845 Judy Perry Martinez, Chair, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, June 10, 2013, Meyer letter ................................................................................ 846 Judy Perry Martinez, Chair, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, May 29, 2013, McCafferty letter ......................................................................... 848 Quotes for the Record on the DC Circuit’s Caseload ............................................ 850
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