Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson‘s Supreme Court decisions are a “promising” sign that she is open to different legal arguments, even when they may not align with the Democratic Party‘s views.
“Jackson called herself an originalist at her confirmation hearings and has shown a willingness to use history and text in her rulings,” Dan Urman, the director of the law and public policy minor at Boston’s Northeastern University of Law, told Newsweek. “That’s promising. We want our justices to be persuadable by legal arguments.”
Jackson, the most recent addition to the bench, joining in 2022, has surprised some since taking her seat on the Supreme Court. This term, President Joe Biden‘s appointee, and the first Black female justice, unexpectedly sided with her conservative colleagues on a number of cases, including Fischer vs. United States, a major case pertaining to January 6.
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