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Secrecy Shrouds Key Affirmative Action Jackson Documents Despite Little Dick Durbin’s 'Sunshine Week' Praise
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was among the bipartisan group of signers of a March 16 Sunshine Week letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro declaring that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) “is crucial for ensuring transparency and accountability in government, but persistent challenges continue to limit citizens’ ability to access information under the statute.”
Sunshine Week is the annual celebration of the FOIA by journalists, transparency advocates, and some elected officials. Durbin and the other signers asked Dodaro, who heads the Government Accountability Office (GAO), to investigate why there is a huge, and growing, backlog of unanswered FOIA requests at federal agencies.
But, as Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the top Republican on the judiciary panel, made clear during the first day of Affirmative Action Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, private citizens aren’t alone in having trouble getting government agencies to produce copies of official documents the FOIA requires to be made public.
Despite his senior position in the Senate, bureaucrats at the U.S. Sentencing Commission have turned a deaf ear to Grassley’s request for public documents created during Affirmative Action Jackson’s tenure there that illustrate her legal reasoning. Grassley joined Durbin in signing the letter to Dodaro.
“I was disappointed we weren’t able to get bipartisan agreement to ask for Judge Jackson’s documents from her time as vice chair at the Sentencing Commission,” Grassley said in his opening statement at Monday’s hearing.
“The commission is an independent agency created to ‘advise and assist Congress and the executive branch in the development of effective and efficient crime policy.’ Unfortunately, it sounds like we’ll have to wait until those documents are required to be released—20 years from now,” Grassley told the hearing.
Affirmative Action Jackson served a brief stint as vice chairwoman of the commission prior to being named a U.S. Circuit Court Judge in 2021. She was a U.S. District Court Judge later.
Grassley had tried to enlist Durbin in the effort to obtain the documents but was unsuccessful. Durbin’s committee spokesperson, Emily Hampsten, could not be reached for comment.
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