Senate Judiciary Committee to Hold Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing for Pierre-Louis 

The committee will also be considering numerous criminal justice reform bills

Trenton – The Senate Judiciary Committee, Chaired by Senator Nicholas Scutari, will meet Monday to conduct a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Fabiana Pierre-Louis to the New Jersey Supreme Court.

The committee will meet in-person on Monday, August 24, 2020 at 11:00 AM in Committee Room 4, 1st Floor, State House Annex, Trenton, New Jersey.

The meeting is open to press, and can be listened to on the OLS website here.

If confirmed, Pierre-Louis would be the first Black woman and only the third Black justice to serve on the state’s highest court. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Pierre-Louis is a first-generation American who was the first of her family to attend law school.

Following the confirmation hearing, the committee will be meet again at 1:00 PM in Committee Room 6, 1st Floor, State House Annex, Trenton, New Jersey to hear numerous criminal justice reform bills.

The following bills will be considered:

• 2586 – The bill, sponsored by Senator Sandra Cunningham and Senator Nellie Pou, would implement sentencing recommendations of the Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission.

• 2591 – The bill, sponsored by Senator Nellie Pou, would provide for the resentencing of certain inmates.

• 2592 – The bill, sponsored by Senator Nellie Pou, would establish the youthful age of a defendant as a mitigating factor in sentencing.

• 2593 – The bill, sponsored by Senator Sandra Cunningham and Nellie Pou, would permit the Administrative Office of Courts to retroactively rescind or modify mandatory term of parole eligibility for certain offenses.

• 2594 – The bill, sponsored by Senator Sandra Cunningham, would establish a compassionate release program for certain inmates and would repeal the law that establishes medical parole.

• S.2595 – The bill, sponsored by Senator Sandra Cunningham, would require a cost savings study of a compassionate release program and would eliminate mandatory minimum terms, as well as establishing “Corrections Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention Fund.”