Justice Jackson Could Be an Asset to the Supreme Court

Then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson watches the Senate vote on her nomination to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 7, 2022. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

The confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court of the United States is being loudly proclaimed by the Biden administration as a triumph for diversity, equality, African-American rights, women’s rights, and of an interpretation of the Constitution that’s so flexible, it’s reduced to a platitude enjoining jurists to interpret the Constitution in the way most amenable to that person’s individual social and political preferences.