CIT extends its congratulations to Affiliated Fellow Jenn Mascott on her nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In announcing her nomination, President Trump wrote that Prof. Mascott is a “highly respected constitutional law professor, [who] served in the Department of Justice during [Trump’s] first term, and currently works in the White House Counsel’s Office.”
Professor Mascott, a nationally recognized scholar of constitutional and administrative law, is the Founder of the Separation of Powers Institute at Catholic Law and an Affiliated Fellow with CIT. Her scholarship focuses on the separation of powers, theories of constitutional and statutory interpretation, and the structure of the federal government. Her work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts, and has appeared in leading journals, including the Stanford Law Review, Supreme Court Review, and Florida Law Review.