Ahead of Supreme Court confirmation hearing, here's Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s stances on key issues
; her term ends this spring. The board provides “counsel to the University’s leadership on priorities, plans, and strategic initiatives,” its website says. In addition, Jackson’s youngest daughter will be a freshman at Harvard in the fall.
But that experience comes with a vulnerability. Republicans are expected to sharply question Jackson about her work as a public defender challenging the detentions of men held by the United States after the 9/11 attacks as “enemy combatants” in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.Jackson continued her work advocating for the rights of criminal defendants when she moved to private practice.
The District’s “willful blindness regarding Pierce’s need for accommodation and its half-hearted attempt to provide Pierce with a random assortment of auxiliary aids — and only after he specifically requested them — fell far short of what the law requires,” Jackson wrote. “Judicial philosophy is a key qualification for the Supreme Court,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement on Jackson last week. “There are a lot of smart lawyers in our country. But they don’t all understand that a judge’s proper role is to apply the text of our laws neutrally. Some would rather start with liberal outcomes and reason backwards.”