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hanks to Senators Patrick Leahy, L’64, H’94 and Dick Durbin, F’66, L’69, eleven women members of Georgetown’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA), including Odunayo Durojaye, C’19, L’22, Cheyenne Freely, L’22 and Jade Baker, L’22, had the opportunity to attend the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court last spring. Reflecting on witnessing the testimony of the judge who would become the Supreme Court’s first Black woman justice, Baker said, “Black women only make up two percent of the entire legal profession. So we always have each other’s back. I’m so grateful that I had the experience to support her.”
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ll-nighters aren’t just for exams. When the Supreme Court reopened oral arguments to visitors last October, Georgetown Law students were eager to snag the coveted tickets – and a few went so far as to camp out on the sidewalk to ensure they’d be among the first in line. Jane Sul, L’25 and Ryan Lee, L’25, classmates in Professor Irv Gornstein’s 1L Constitutional Law class, were all smiles even after spending a chilly night on air mattresses before attending arguments in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, a case they had also watched being mooted at Georgetown Law’s Supreme Court Institute.