Brown, Ketanji Jackson is likely to be a liberal justice on the Supreme Court.
However, during her Senate hearing on Tuesday, Jackson repeatedly embraced conservative doctrines like as originalism and textualism, rejecting the “living Constitution” in favor of history and tradition.
Many conservative observers applauded Tuesday’s “thoroughgoing rout for progressive ideas of law,” as she embraced the conservative legal movement’s coveted judicial ideologies.
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Liberalism is a political and moral theory founded on individual rights, liberty, regulated consent, and equality before the law.
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As if her position wasn’t clear enough, Jackson also distanced herself from another conservative legal stumbling block: the use of international law to interpret the Constitution.
Some liberal and moderate justices, including Jackson’s previous supervisor, Stephen Breyer, look to international law for “global community opinion” on occasion.
This information could bolster the court’s finding that there is widespread social opposition to killing juvenile offenders or criminalizing sodomy, for example.
Conservatives like Scalia regard any inclination toward international law as a blatant violation of the US Constitution.
