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2022-02-05 Home Front: Politix
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Former clerk of SCOTUS contender Ketanji Brown Jackson changed her Wikipedia page to 'paint her in a more favorable light for a liberal audience' while altering those of her competitors to make them less appealing
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Ketanji Brown Jackson is a potential nominee for the Supreme Court
- Her former clerk edited her Wikipedia page to 'paint her in a more favorable light for a liberal audience,' according to a Politico investigation
- The anonymous editor was identified by a group of the judge's former law clerks as Matteo Godi who used to clerk for the judge
- The user made more than 20 edits to the pages of seven judges seen to be in the running for Biden's nomination
- Godi, a Yale Law graduate from Italy, clerked for Jackson from October 2019 to October 2020, according to his LinkedIn
- President Biden said he will announce his nominee pick to replace retiring Justice Breyer before the end of February
Godi, who grew up in the Parma region of Italy, attended the Pierson College at Yale before going to law school at the Ivy League school. He completed clerkships with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit.
Matteo was a visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School last fall, where he taught a course on Torts and Regulation.
During law school, he worked at NAACP LDF, Equal Justice Under Law, and the D.C. Public Defender Service.
The law clerks told Politico that their former colleague had edited Jackson's Wikipedia page 'as a matter of course' for several years.
The most recent changes to Jackson's page were on January 30 and February 1, and involved two rulings against the Trump administration that were later overturned.
The portion of the Wiki page detailing Jackson's most famous decision - to require former White House counsel Don McGahn to obey a congressional subpoena involving then-President Donald Trump - was altered.
The New York Times noted Jackson's 'slow pace' helped Trump 'run out the clock on the congressional oversight effort' before the 2020 election. Jackson's updated Wikipedia page shifts the blame for the ruling’s timing from Jackson to the D.C. Circuit court.
In the another, user H2rty cut a reference to Jackson's position on an advisory board of 'a Baptist school.'
Both were portions were replaced replaced with: 'Ahead of her confirmation hearing, 'Bloomberg Law' reported that conservative activists were pointing to certain decisions by Jackson that had been reversed on appeal as a 'potential blemish on her record,' in order 'to tarnish her so she won't get picked for the Supreme Court.' 
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