Ketanji Brown Jackson

Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson is an American lawyer and jurist who is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into office that same year. She is the first Black woman, the first former federal public defender, and the sixth woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

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Far Right
A new study shows she speaks more than twice as much as any other Supreme Court justice during oral arguments.
Far Right sees her verbosity as evidence of an activist justice who treats the bench as a platform, reinforcing the need for originalist restraint.
Far Right
A Federalist analysis claims she is the most partisan Supreme Court justice, amid ongoing Democrat attacks on the Court.
The far right views Jackson as a radical leftist whose record on crime and affirmative action proves the Court's liberal wing is unmoored from the Constitution.
Far Right
Jackson wrote a defense of birthright citizenship rooted in critical race theory, arguing against traditional judicial restraint.
Jackson embodies the radicalization of the judiciary, using anti-racist ideology to erase the legal basis of national membership and sovereignty.
Far Left
Justice Jackson issued a sharp dissent blasting Amy Coney Barrett and the Supreme Court majority for what she called 'contempt' for Congress in blocking Americans from vindicating statutory rights.
Far left observers note that while Jackson's dissent is substantively correct, the deeper problem is that the Court is a counter-majoritarian institution wielding class power, and dissents, however pointed, are not a substitute for structural reform that Democratic leadership has consistently refused to pursue.

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