Jackson Asserts She Has Record of Judicial Neutrality
WASHINGTON – Amidst criticism from Republicans, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Biden’s choice to head the Supreme Court, has said that she has a record of judicial neutrality.
Jackson is currently awaiting Senate confirmation.
Jackson said she is “acutely aware” that the power she wields as a US judge is “limited,” maintaining that it is her long-standing conviction to try cases from a “position of neutrality.’
“I am trying, in every case, to stay in my lane,” Jackson said on her second day of confirmation hearings.
Under questioning from Senator Chuck Grassley, the Judiciary Committee’s top Republican, Jackson said her record “clearly demonstrates that I am an independent jurist,” who is “impartial.”
She also pushed back on criticism from some Republicans that she has been soft on child pornographers, saying, “as a mother and a judge who has had to deal with these cases, I was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth.”
Biden nominated Jackson in February following Justice Stephen Breyer’s announcement that he would retire from the top court at the end of its current term. If confirmed, Jackson would be the first Black female Supreme Court justice.
Jackson is a graduate of Harvard law school, and served as a public defender before serving on the US District Court for the District of Columbia from 2013 to 2021.
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