For Biden's SCOTUS nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, judging is service to the American public.
In the days since Ketanji Brown Jackson was named as President Joe Biden’s pick to replace Justice Stephen Breyer at the high court, we’ve heard a lot about her education, her background in drama and debate, the career path that brought her to the federal courts, and her approach to the law.
So she sees judging as a service to the American public. Her work ethic is about not just getting it right. It’s about showing her work and, critically, it’s about making sure that the opinion makes sense. The clerks have shared, in our letter in support of her last confirmation, that her final step in editing every opinion is really extraordinary, particularly in some of her lengthy opinions.
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